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Hi. I'm Marco's sister. Those of you who don't know me can call me Pearl. When I was nineteen, I bit into a pearl in a fried oyster in some linoleum-floored crab shack on Cape Cod.

I'm a recovering graduate student, high school Spanish teacher, unrepentant history geek, and budding mystic. I've traveled to four of the seven continents. I always love to discuss politics, religion, history, and philosophy. In my other life, I'm also a wife with really poor housekeeping skills. But I can cook.

 

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Signs of the times

I saw two cars today which gave me pause for thought.

The first one had two bumper stickers, right on top of each other. The top one said: “Jesus is the only answer”, and the bottom sticker said “NRA: The first line of defense for freedom”. Now, I’ve seen this combination before, but every time, it makes me wonder if Jesus would have been a member of the NRA.

The second car was driven by an older woman, maybe around my grandmother’s age. The license plate — not the plate holder/frame, the actual plate — said “Gold Star Mother” on the side, like where the “government” or “commercial” notations usually are.  It broke my heart. No matter how anyone feels about the war, it made it real for me that there are thousands of mothers who have lost their children to war. Thousands.

Happy Memorial Day.