He wasn't a bad kid in any way, but the endless preaching got old coming from a little kid who kept on turning up at our house. Used to piss off my daughter (she's about the same age he is) pretty regularly. It got stupid enough one time that he told her they couldn't play together anymore because she was able to discuss evolution. She just walked away and left him sitting on our front stoop. He went on home, then turned up back at our house an hour later wanting to hang out--like nothing had happened.
We always used to joke that we were gonna leave our clothes out in the front yard like we'd been "raptured" just so we could watch him freak out.
A few years later he became terribly ill and almost died. We were back and forth at the hospital along with his family, praying, worrying, and sometimes crying along with them. The day he finally came home we'd restocked the refrigerator and were there to welcome him home and stay with him while his parents went to get meds filled and take care of a couple of other pressing issues. Two years later I went to his graduation and cried just like I did when my own kid graduated.
Yeah, there are some wacky ass people out there running around, and it is fodder for a laugh or two, but I gotta say that after living around him and his family, I just don't have the heart to make the same jokes anymore.
Peace to you.
Laura
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