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Ole Wives Tales

In the great need to please people he saw it smart to undermined his family for the sake of others. Often he would refuse to understand his families investment strategies. Citing it as "some ole get rich scheme" Where any Idea was useless and unneeded. Dumbing down facts to create a fiction where it's origins where from folklore and wavetables. He leaned on his faith: but curses it's teachings "he wrapped the baby blanket around the tree" in belief that she would be pregnant by next Christmas." When he asked for a used baby blanket they told him "the blanket had to be made of the yarns and prayed upon!" He had no sheep to shear to make yarn so he found that he had to buy yarn he had to ask someone to knit the yarn and he found Five women could knit the blanket much faster. He asked 10 women to do so. It was weeks before Christmas and by this time next year he wish her to be pregnant. So her got a group of friends to put some money together they bought food and drinks and set aside two days to party and dance. While the women knitted the blanket. One said it would make more since to wrap a blanket around the christmas tree. So they did. 13 days they knitted until completion. Then they partied and dance from Christmas Eve into Christmas. Then Christmas evening they cleaned prayed and went to church. praying that those who wanted to be pregnant could be pregnant by this time next year.

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