a normal family ^^^
- My mom got into an altercation with a protester outside of Providence's Planned Parenthood. She and my younger sister were actually going to the bakery next door, but seeing a mother-daughter pair approaching, the protesters apparently made some assumptions and starting shoving dead baby pamphlets in their faces. As the exchange escalated my mom apparently lost her temper and shouted into the guy's face, "I'LL TELL YOU SOMETHING--I'M A CHRISTIAN, AND YOU KNOW WHAT?? IF JESUS WERE HERE HE WOULD NOT BE DOING THIS!!"
- Thanks to my little brother, I have a whole new musical genre to enjoy, one which I had not previously given much consideration: VIKING METAL. Of particular interest is Turisas, the most epic band EVAR, who "combine elements of folk and power metal"and are named after the Finnish god of war. If you like the idea of a metal show where everyone is dressed like a viking and "thee" and "thou" are the preferred second person pronouns, THIS IS THE BAND FOR YOU.
- I am reminded that gender ambiguity is something of a family legacy when my father discusses the merits of Grand Junction's cowboy bars with my aunt's newish husband. He concedes that said bars have a real appeal but points out that as a longhair in the 1970s, his most frequent exchange with the cowboys of rural Colorado centered on the question (here he affects his best drawl) "Are yew a boy or are yew a girl?"
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It's been a while, but when I was a young thing, I was mistaken for female more than once. I always took it as a compliment.
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