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Catholic School

So, I think I have lightly hit on the fact that I attended a private Catholic school in my youth.  Today I saw a Buzzfeed thing about that very subject, so now's the time to dive in, I suppose. Religion was already weird in my family by the time I was born, or even by the time I attended the aforementioned school.  Everyone had different religions or no religion or had switched religions.  Some could find a common foothold with someone else, but most times there were a lot of arguments. My mother attended a private Catholic boarding high school and on Halloween 1978 she converted to Catholicism from her childhood religion of Presbyterian.  My father and his sister, unbeknownst to each other in the moment, converted from non practicing Baptists to Mormons; he while at college & she while in Germany, where her then husband was stationed.  Even my mothers sister converted to Anglicanism in her twenties.  My sister was baptized Presbyterian and then follow...