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Hey, growing up in our home and I bet your home was similar. There were certain words that were

off limits in our home. And again, I grew up in a different generation than some of you,

but here was one of the big ones. In fact, it's hard for me to even say this out loud in church,

okay, darn, I was like, oh, you know, this was like not being able to say this word was a fence

rule. A fence rule is a rule that keeps you from breaking a worse rule. And so in our home,

we didn't want to say the word that sounded kind of like darn, not yarn, start to dig anyway.

And so if my parents thought if we don't say this word, you know, the kids won't drift over

to another word because the ultimate rule was no cursing or we didn't say cussing. I don't

know if that's a southern thing or not, but no cursing or cussing, either one. So we had kind

of these fence rules around some words. And the threat was, this is really going to show you

something. So the threat was if you cuss or curse, if you say one of these words, especially that word,

you're going to get your mouth washed out with soap. Now, I think my parents only said that because

their parents said it and their parents said it. I don't know where that began because what is

that you could probably be arrested today for washing a child's mouth out with soap, but that was

that was the threat. Now, in our family, Sandra and I, we raised our kids a little bit different.

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