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I grew up loving The Addams Family, without knowing quite why, until one day as an adult I realized: These people are an aristocratic, trad-Catholic homeschooling family trapped in a sterile Protestant suburb!

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(and yeah, there’s some Cat’lick triumphalism here as vs. both Protestants and Orthodox Christians. I think the piece is still worth reading even if you’re in those camps–let Zmirak be Zmirak!–but you know your own annoyance-level best.)