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Open Thread
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Every morning the poor would go to the railroad tracks and pick up the coal that spilled from the cars. The old woman would walk past our house with a pillow case of coal on her back.
Mom said that the old woman was taking bad children to the river to drown them. My sister and I would hide underneath the window sill as to not be seen, popping up occasionally to see her pass with the bag of “bad children” on her back on her way to the river to drown them.
Oh yeah, we behaved.
A lady friend of mine would asker her three boys to sit on the couch and watch for the “purple cow” and to call her immediately when the “purple cow” came into view. They may still be there watching while she did her work.
Rupnik – a horror story