When my children were small, we had some friends spending the weekend with us, and they had kids who were Joe and Naomi’s age, around nine and eleven. And one night after dinner, the kids were looking for a VHS tape to watch, and what they came up with was Christine. And the mother of our guests said, “No, you can’t watch that. It’s rated R. You’re not allowed to watch R-rated movies.” So they went back to get something else, and I happened to be walking by and I overheard the older kid saying to Joe, “I am so embarrassed by that, God. You guys get to watch R-rated movies and we don’t and it’s
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