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Runningdawg

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6. The Bible has been causing the brain drain for a hundred years.
Sun Dec 22, 2024, 02:34 PM
Dec 2024

In 1978 I graduated from a small rural school in OK. Out of 7 in my class, I was the only one, unmarried and without children on graduation day. Boys dropped out Freshman year and my first friend married in 8th grade. She had a baby that summer. By the time I was 16, there was no one to hang out with. My friends all had 2-3 kids, worked pt time for Walmart and lived on welfare. They didn't send their kids to that school, they were all home schooled by momma, the way Jesus intended.
Many times, the pastor, in great concern, spoke with my parents and I about my sinful desire to ignore my calling by god and go to college instead.
The solution was to "allow" me to attend a votech where I was trained to be a hairdresser. They believe that career would keep me with the women where I belonged and eventually, some good old boy would breed me.
Thanks to a librarian, I got OUT.

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