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Category: Family Stories

  • The Wrath of God

    My earliest memories of wrath are of my mom. She was a great mom, but she wouldn’t put up with nonsense or misbehavior. When I grew up, discipline meant spanking, so my mom would sometimes spank me if I had done something to seriously displease her. My earliest crime, maybe at the age of three,…

  • Twelve Is A Fuzzy Concept

    According to the bible, Israel was descended from twelve patriarchs, the sons of Jacob. He had twelve sons by four women. By his first wife, Leah, he fathered Reuben (his firstborn), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulon. By Leah’s slave, Zilpah, he had Gad and Asher. By Rachael, his second wife whom he loved, he…

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