took me up on it<\/a>, so out of fairness here is my list:<\/p>\n1. I have never worn a tuxedo.<\/p>\n
2. My brief first marriage was a disaster. We were both just too immature.<\/p>\n
3. I am somewhat allergic to horses, which is a nuisance when you\u2019re a small-town Western kid.<\/p>\n
4. My first childhood memory is of rabbits.<\/p>\n
5. For four years, owls helped to pay my mortgage.<\/p>\n
6. I attended four high schools in grade 11, partly due to having problems with authority.<\/p>\n
7. I had no formal Wiccan initiation.<\/p>\n
8. I worked several years as a technical writer for a well-known aerospace company while taking graduate classes in religion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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