Most people who lived in England when I was a kid considered that they were Christians. Many of us went through the ritual of church and were satisfied that that was enough. Once I had acknowledged that everyone is by nature wretched and mean and not at all ready to go to Heaven, I realized [...]

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I was sent to boarding school at the age of 12. It was the same for most of our friends, and for us, there was no such thing as a “soccer mom” because kids played most of their sport at school and a bus would take us to other schools for matches at the weekends. [...]

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Recently I talked with a friend about the subtleties of British life and how I thought that it might be interesting for American women to understand a different perspective. I mentioned the British class system and the ways that different aspirations, depending on a person’s class, can affect peoples’ view of life dramatically. My friend [...]

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