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You try to warn them. You do. “This stuff has a lot to answer for ...like fast women, hot cars, liquor and Satan,” you say. “Don’t make the same mistake as me ... the same mistake a lot of us made. It puts the whole society on a slippery slope down the road to ruin. Find another way, kid ... or you’ll end up like me.” But kids often don't listen. (I didn't.) And the opposition is...

I was in the 8th grade and I had invited two friends from elementary school over to hang out. We decided to watch a movie and I had remembered that we left it in my bedroom. As I picked up the video cassette (before the streamlined DVD ever existed), it fell from my hand and landed edge down on my foot. I had a total out of body experience in the same way that little Ralphie did in "A Christmas...

Everyone knows if you grow up in a Catholic home the word Bingo is a very important word in your home, at least it was in mine. Before my mom became too disabled to move in with our family she had a nice little apartment and a life of bingo games on Wednesday mornings and Thursday nights at a couple of local Catholic churches. She would go with my mother and father-in-law ......I...