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misanthrope

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23. My mother is one of them

Reply to ancianita (Reply #18)

Sat May 8, 2021, 06:53 PM

May 2021

She is a hardcore Southern Baptist but also likes telling people how great she thinks "Atlas Shrugged" is, professing to having once read it as if it is a mark of intellectual status.

Then again, my mother has some pretty heavy mental health issues that resulted in psychological abuse of her kids. So maybe her disconnect is perfectly expected then.

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