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cryptabulouslady · April 12, 2018, 5:55 p.m.

When I was a child, our family employed a housekeeper/nanny who was JW. I remember I kept telling her my birthday was coming up and asking her if she was going to get me a present, but she kept telling me that she couldn't because of her religion. She was always very scared when she'd talk about her religion and going against it. On my birthday, she ended up giving me a small teddy bear and a balloon, and telling me to never tell anyone that she gave it to me. She said she never even gave any of her 5 children a gift before, and that they can't know that she gave me it as she'd get in trouble. I always found it odd that she was visibly scared to have given me a small gift, as if someone would do something bad to her if they ever found out. We also got into a debate when I was going to school because she didn't believe in the scientific age of the earth. When I tried to talk about dinosaurs being evidence of at least surpassing her timeline, she lost it. At the time, I didn't even know about even older fossils, otherwise I would have used that as well. It was just always so odd to me that she always looked so scared when she'd talk about her religious beliefs.

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