Reply #106: You got it

[MountainLaurel]

Reminds me of a family story: Once I was having a discussion about going to the anniversary party of my great-aunt. My comment was "Nothing like spending the afternoon with the good Catholic branch of the family." (Background: Aunt Annie was the only one of my grandfather's siblings who remained in the church after my great-granddad left it because he didn't approve of the priest's habit of knocking up the parochial school girls. She used to lord it over the others about her grandchildren going to the Catholic school while the rest of us heathens had to "settle" for public school. Of course, one of those grandchildren finished 8th grade without actually learning to read, and thus had to be sent to Catholic high school as well, but I digress . . . )

Mom's response: Good Catholics my ass . . . your Aunt Deb (who is in her 50s and never had lived outside her parents' home) still thinks she was a 7-month baby! The scoop is that not only did she get knocked up, but the man in question had to get an annulment from his first wife (they had an infant at the time -- how does that work?)

They see what they want to see.