Latter Day Sinner

Hi Mom.

My parents were pretty liberal with me when I was growing up. As a general rule they would let me make my own bad decisions and live with the consequences of them. There was a Mormon family that lived next door to us for a while. I wasn’t allowed to play with their boys. At the time I thought that was my parents decision, but looking back it was probably because I would have been a bad influence on them and not the other way around. The primary exception is that my parents were not going to let me fail out of school because of non compliance. That was usually where they drew the line. I also remember occasionally wandering the house in the middle of the night singing to myself. Dad didn’t put up with that either. My wife assures me that these are all healthy relationships. Sometimes I still feel like a bad influence though even when or maybe especially when I’m being awesome.