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75. The family religious wars of my childhood were brutal.

Fri Mar 19, 2021, 06:22 PM

Mar 2021

Four grandparents, four religions.

Opposites attract, and then they fight.

The only reason our family gathered on religious holidays, if they could even agree on a date, was to fight.

And then they'd come back for more every year, because they liked to fight about religion.

I had but one grandparent who wished to celebrate a traditional 20th century U.S.A. Christmas on December 25 with Santa Claus.

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