A midnight summons from the Pastor
The gossip eventually escalated into direct action from the church leadership. My father recounted how the phone rang late one evening just forty-eight hours before the ceremony.
The Pastor demanded his immediate presence for a private consultation at the parish office. It wasn’t a request; it was a summons he felt compelled to obey.
He drove there in the middle of the night, unaware that this meeting would ultimately sever his relationship with his daughter.