Conversation

When I was eight, my family moved from Oklahoma to Pennsylvania, and from the time I entered the third grade, till the moment I graduated the eighth, I attended a rural Mennonite school, which was different from the other Christians I’d known in that they were pacifists. My family came from Protestant and Catholic Irish pioneer stock, so pacifism was not really a familiar concept. If we weren’t drinking, we were fighting, so pacifism didn’t come up a whole hell of a lot.

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