In July, 2022, the same summer that Ren asked a judge for permission to leave Texas and cut ties with her mother, a 28-year-old marketing professional named Weston Brown was at his apartment in San Diego, mindlessly scrolling Twitter.

Yeah, I was in my house, enjoying like an ordinary week, and then all of a sudden I see my mom's face.

The word I have on my heart is repentance, just to think about that as adults, that not all of us had a hand in what's happened here, but we are the ones who are present to solve the issues.

That's Monica Brown, Weston's mother,

speaking at a May 22 school board meeting in Granbury, Texas,

a town about an hour away from grapevine.

I had tweeted a video of her speech

to give an example of how heeded the debate over school

library books had gotten.

And now, Weston was seeing my tweet on his feed.

In the clip, Monica was calling on the school board to repent for giving students access

to books that she believed could be damaging to their hearts and minds.

Just like this one, and I'm sorry to point fingers, but we have librarians who are misunderstanding

what is healthy and good for children. We're talking about graphic, inappropriate material

for children as young as age 11. Monica is a mother of nine who leads a Christian homeschooling

cooperative.

None of her kids, including Weston, have ever attended public school.

But here she was, calling for criminal charges against school librarians and suggesting that a local Christian pastor should be put in charge of reviewing what books

public school children can read.

He would never steer you wrong, and he would put you in a safety zone with your books.

You don't have to have these ultra-controversial books in your library.

A rush of memories came flooding back as Weston watched the video, how his mother had removed

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