re: #145 Backwoods_Sleuth

Yes, I was. And I should have added a #3: I got an excellent academic education in Catholic school. Sadly, once my family moved from Buffalo, NY, to somewhere in the western wildlands of Greater Cincinnati, the new parish was VERY not progressive and I got kicked to the curb by the time I was 14-15 years old.

What a small world. I’m older than you, but went to Catholic schools in Buffalo from 1949 until 1954, 3rd through 6th. Then I attended Gesu School in Miami in the 7th & 8th grades when we moved there. After that, it was public schools and my separation from the church in which I no longer had an interest.