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10. Some of my husband's family sends them

Reply to NRaleighLiberal (Original post)

Tue Dec 18, 2012, 09:35 PM

Dec 2012

Mostly his aunts - one in Hawaii, one in New Mexico. Since we don't correspond regularly, it's a nice way to find out what they've been up to.

The ones I never got and am glad about it were from my fundamentalist aunt and uncle with my aunt talking all the BS missionary work they did and bragging on their "good" son, the one that became a fundamentalist minister and joined the army. They never mentioned their other son, who became a minister but in a *gasp* different denomination. I never got them because they cut me off when I got married with no ceremony at all, much less a Christian church wedding. My sisters did get them and they would read them to me while we were

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