43 now, an embarrassing shot of me taken in the late 1990s when
   I was in my mid-late 20s. Hanging out with friends, drinking
   beer at a park... with a candle to read by and my Philokalia
   smoking a cigarette. I wasn't drunk; we did one of "Death Poses"
   and so, to 24 year old Ken, this is how I wanted to look when I
   died.

   The Candle looks Catholic - so it was *probably* when I was 26
   and _almost_ joined the Roman Catholic Church. I worked at a
   University.. saw the priests in training (Seton Hall) and
   thought, "Wow, I could do that!). I still could. But after
   reading the Catechism from cover-to-cover I was like, eh, nope.

   What does this have to do with the OP? Nothing I was just going
   through pictures and wanted an excuse to share this one.

   In retrospect, I was a fangirl. A scholarly, serious fangirl. I
   get fangirlish about stuff.[1]IMG_8210

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