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hunter

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32. That would have triggered my mom's berserker mode.

Wed Jan 22, 2025, 10:48 AM

Jan 22

She would have run down the shit-thrower and castrated him with whatever tool was at hand, a serrated garden trowel being most likely if she was gardening when it happened.

My dad, and later me and my siblings as adults, were protective of my mom, but not in that fashion. Our goal was to keep her out of jail for mayhem.

When I was a kid I witnessed my mom grab a rifle from some fool, expertly unload it, and break it against a boulder. In my mom's wild west family fools and their guns were soon parted.

Some of us are pacifists by necessity, not by any natural inclination.

My mom's parents were pacifists, and her dad was a Conscientious Objector in World War II. He would not take up arms or build them. Her parents were welders and their compromise was to build and repair ships for the Merchant Marine.

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