Below is a long (6,000 word) essay that is a mixture of autobiography, psychology, and religion, about my father and what I will call my conversion to Christianity. I occasionally write essays of this sort, which always cost me great blood and sweat and (in cases like this, many) tears. But I find them incredibly worthwhile to write.
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