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Speaking to that, I remember the the very might have been the first time i was a very new devotee and i was speaking to my parents who were practicing catholics at the time

about vegetarianism and you know i was kind of pushing it you know, I was kind of pushing it, you know, like I was kind of saying, well, like, it's there in the Bible.

You know, I had all my quotes and, you know, to work with.

And I remember my father said to me, like, he wasn't going to give ground on the idea that it's wrong for him to eat meat as a Christian.

But what he said was, but I accept that it's something special that you want to do.

You know?

And because I was young and immature at that time, my mood is more like, no, no, it's not just something special that I'm doing. It's something

that you should be doing, you know.

But I think, you know, as I matured,

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