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TwilightZone

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18. Our relationship was kind of unusual.

Wed Oct 28, 2020, 09:43 PM

Oct 2020

I didn't have much contact with him for about 20 years and this was shortly after we, for lack of a better word, reunited in my mid 20s. He was a hardcore, Rush Limbaugh conservative and because we didn't have a normal, ongoing relationship, I felt like I could pretty freely question his worldview. Which I did. Often.

It apparently had some impact because after Bush v. Gore, he saw the light and realized that all of his right-wing sources and buddies were feeding him crap and he became a pretty solid liberal. So, that's one. haha

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