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This Mennonite in me is the other Man in Black. He\u2019s why I like the Benedictines and could\u2019ve been a monk. He\u2019s the one who doesn\u2019t really like all the fol-di-rol Catholics with too much lace and incense and china tea cups. He\u2019s the one who wants to live simply and turn out the lights and live in a cabin and grow vegetables. He\u2019s the one who sees the fakery and flummery of American life and shakes his head and climbs into his horse and buggy to ride off into the sunset and a good dinner of chicken pot pie and chow chow and shoo fly pie. Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n

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