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Buckeye_Democrat

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20. She was fine.
Tue Aug 4, 2020, 04:20 PM
Aug 2020

(Very sorry to read about your religious family member!)

I'm much younger than all of my siblings and I heard the story from my oldest brother long after it happened. He did his usual head-shaking about her gullibility and said the guy was definitely up to no good, but our sister couldn't tell.

So I later mentioned it to her, and she remembered it. She never learned any lessons from it! Her main complaint was that she was a small 10-year-old and felt like her arms were going to get ripped off with each of them pulling on her, especially since our brother was big and strong for his age.

I asked if she was thankful that he might've prevented a rape, and she replied that she thought the stranger was just an innocent old guy who wanted her help!

I then asked her what kind of innocent guy would try to rip her away from her brother?! Also, did she know ANYTHING about mushrooms?! Why would he only want HER help?!

She couldn't really answer and suddenly seemed to actually be thinking for once!

She was never dumb, scholastically, but I think there's a severe deficiency in her brain somewhere. The oldest brother often said she was that way from the time she was a very young girl. It's shocking how trusting and gullible she can be!

Edit:

If she was a cat, she'd probably be a Ragdoll. Many of those cats are supposedly very trusting and friendly, to the point that it's often recommended to never let them outside because they'll walk right into danger... like a snarling dog that will break their neck once the cat gets close.

My sister is liked by most people because of her kind and trusting nature, but she can also be a target of sociopaths... like her abusive ex-husband that she married because he proclaimed to be a "born again" Christian at her church.

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