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I wasn't raised with religion either, just encouraged to read and think.
That's all you can do; you have a sensitive kid and he's gonna dive into the deep end where it's uncomfortable. I guess there are some things you can't really make any easier for him, much as you'd like to. He'll get there.
I have had one weird experience.
I had a friend who was an interesting, mercurial type artist/musician/plunderphonics guy who I occasionally collaborated with, but wasn't terribly close to. He was the kind of guy who would up and move across the country on a whim, that sort of thing.
Anyway, my wife and I were on a cross-country road trip to one of the Terrastock fests one year, and we got to talking about this guy, who we hadn't seen in a while. She said to me, "You know, I wouldn't be surprised if sometime we heard that he had died some kind of mysterious, sudden death."
When we got to the fest, we met up with some other friends from Mpls, and the first thing they said to us was "Did you hear about "...?" He just dropped dead suddently yesterday (the day we were talking about him)."
It turned out to be from having an enlarged heart, but it was a mystery for a while afterward.
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