One of the drawbacks of growing up the granddaughter of two church families is that I was riddled by this horrendous personal guilt all the time. So on the one hand you have all of this crazy southern gothic stuff going on in the background of my childhood, but then you also have southern Sunday church expectations to contend with. I didn’t have a mother saying I should do this or do that or wear these proper clothes when you go out in public. My parents didn’t do that. But the rigid, proper church culture was always there. The pressure of a certain ideal makes you feel really guilty if, like
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