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Growing up, she was not Sam Beckett from Quantum Leap. Despite how much she wanted the travel. She reminds him more now of those people that Beckett would have left behind in unwritten, unaired episodes, who wonder why their relative or friend behaved and acted so oddly for the time-period allotted to an episode of sci-swap/body-fi TV. And who, from that time on, feel very different, in that unreal place, about their loved ones.

And just as those no-one-people would have no doubt ascribed their loved ones' behaviour to divine intervention, his mother's unusual behaviour and conduct, and by extension that of her children, was explained away by her peers as deriving from a vague but powerful religiosity. One general enough to probably be Christian in origin but which was in fact closer to pagan idolatry. The irony was that she had abandoned religion in favour of its faceless, requited brother: atheism. She was freed from and moved to another prison, like someone who has survived a visit from Death and spends the rest of their life telling people about it. Or not, in her case.

For she was taciturn by nature and that looked decidedly like divinity, by accident. But the tide of this religious current moved beyond her and buffeted him and his siblings. They reminded those around them of the Flanders of The Simpsons. What would those people, who accused them of religious belief, have made of the fact that Jehovah's Witnesses stopped making house-calls out of frustration with his mother's interminable, scriptural inquiries? With her plot holes.

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from Ex seamstress, released May 29, 2020

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