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Submitted to Contest #45
An Anglican upbringing in rural England was a sheltered affair. It presented a skewed interpretation of the brutal world around you. It taught you little about adversity, or diversity. Almost nothing about impermanence. Perhaps the only salient thing it offered was faith. It suggested that as long as you believed in an invisible guardian, and you followed a series of basic guidelines to please them, you needn’t fret over the dangers that kept most people up at night. Protected in this cheerful bubble it was easy to cling to a child-like leve...
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