Me (big wink) - "Well, I ain't Buddhist . . ."
He was Catholic too. We had a lot of fun talking about the nuns in his grade school and our respective parishes.
I'll bet you got an earful :-)
I'm slightly older than you and grew up, a Catholic baby boomer, in Queens NY. The classes in our Catholic School were packed - 50+ to a room with the same nun for the entire year. I was so intimidated by my 7th grade teacher that I broke out in shingles and was written up in the New England Journal of Medicine (or so said the Dermatologist), as the youngest patient ever treated for this ailment. Now, as an adult and mother, looking back on the experience, I can only proclaim thes nuns as saints. Imagine spending an entire year teaching ALL subjects to the same group of students, all afflicted with raging hormones. Not only that, she also corrected our spelling and grammar on EVERY paper submitted, regardless of the topic. And, these nuns did this work out of a sense of duty, obligation and LOVE for our Lord. God bless each and every one of them!