Why

 


"You must be no part of this world just as I am no part of this world..."

                                                                                                                            -Jesus Christ 

I was born in 1977 to two parents of very different backgrounds.  One Jehovah's Witness and the other Southern Baptist.  How could that ever come to be, especially if you know anything about the extreme exclusiveness of the Witnesses?  

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