I was raised as a Catholic…if you call going to church for Christmas and Easter “being raised” as a Catholic. I remember the Pope, John Paul II at the time, visiting my hometown as I was growing up and all of us lining the streets and stopping traffic just for the chance to catch a [...]

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As a young woman growing up in south Texas, my mother taught me that there was no sweeter sound in the English dictionary than the word, “free.” Oh, how our chubby hearts would soar when we came upon the sample lady at our local grocery store handing out free samples of hot pepperoni pizza or [...]

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