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“Mom, who is your boss?”<\/p>\n

“Uh,” I stop to think about it for a minute. “I’m my own boss.”<\/p>\n

“No, you’re not,” she insists, shaking her head and pointing at the ceiling. “Your boss is up THERE.”<\/p>\n

“You mean GOD is my boss?”<\/p>\n

“Yeah. You can’t be your own boss.”<\/p>\n

I guess all that agnostic de-programming isn’t quite getting the job done…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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