AnnOmaly,
You are one astute lady! You posting deserves answers since you started this thread to begin with and reviewed my book so fairly and eloquently.
You must have received the paperback version of the book because we are not allowed to put page numbers on Kindle and Nook versions. I probably should have put page numbers in the table of contents for that paperback version, but I didn't like the way it looked when I tried it. I hoped that by my putting headings on each chapter it would help you find that chapter again if you needed to, rather than page numbers on the TOC. I guess I was wrong. I will correct this on the second printing... if I ever have enough books sold to justify that effort.
My general rule of thumb was that I would obscure the name of any big shot that I was remotely critical of, but not worry about it if I wasn't really critical of them. It's why I named Fred Franz or Sydlik or Gangas, but hid other GB and hid heavies like the power hungry RW. I really didn't want my book to be about calling out people by name as bad guys. I was more interested in the lesson of the story rather than getting revenge on a particular person. GS (first name later revealed as Gene) was a different issue. I actually liked Gene very much at my stay at Bethel. But many ex-JW's hate this guy. I guess I didn't want those ex-JW folks to read my book, get distracted with that and say "Really, you LIKED that guy? Are you kidding?" So, after I wrote his parts, I later thought to remove his name too. I left in the first name by mistake in one passage that you have now pointed out. Oh well. I this still obscures him to all but the most astute and clued-in people like yourself though, so I have no regrets on that. I probably will take his name out completely on the second edition.
Ray Franz the nephew was mentioned that way at first, then, typo, slip-of-the-brain, I called him brother later. My editor didn't catch it and neither did I on my many reviews. Oops. Another 2 edition correction needed.
Finally, yes, Michael Jackson was suspected of child molestation, even way back then. He had not been put on trial for it at that time, but he still had that strange and unsettling fixation on children even in those days. So, the gay, child molester epithets flew at the Holy House of God, even in the 1980s.
Brock Talon