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Weekly Contest #370
The Exorcised Child It was the day my mother called “Johnny’s exorcism” that showed me the difference between real outrage, planned outrage and no outrage at all. A spontaneous overreaction is human, but planned outrage, like we see in politics all the time, is devious and only meant to hide something. In my family it is an old story usually told by my sisters, with much elation and jubilation, and numerous “Thanks be to gods”. Several unrelated incidents led to the exorcism. At six years old, I was showing my three-year-old brother Dennis h...
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