What Lies in Faith
The duality of her upbringing and the religious expectations.
Fiction | Religion | Dissonance | Parental Lies
She was born in the hilly town of Mount Do’or in Trinidad. Her poor, young mother baptized her firstborn in the Anglican church. Roxanne was her name, full of hope and promise to her mother.
However, Roxanne’s life took a different path when her mother decided it was best for her baby to be raised by her father’s mother, Mina.
Mina baptized Roxanne as a Catholic and plastered a new saintly name over the one her mother had given her — Margaret. Everyone called her Meg for short. This marked the beginning of her life as a devoted Catholic.
Specific religion-steeped events marked her life. The first was her baptism as a Catholic, and the second came when she turned ten.