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“Outta’ My Mind on a Monday Moanin’ ”
Last Monday, I told you about growing up on Tremont Street in Monroe, Michigan.
I mentioned the core group of friends I spent that part of my life with.
All good people.
This story came from “the girl next door,” Marie Merman, I called her, ReRe, the sister of my best friend, Paul Merman.
I don’t know how much politics was discussed in the Merman house; we were all quite young. After all, I was just 10 years old when I made the huge mistake of not joining Marie and Shelley on their excursion to Detroit, where their parents were taking them to see The Beatles.
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I don’t remember much talk about politics in my childhood home, but certainly, when we were kids, we picked up many of our beliefs through osmosis. We really were little sponges.
The only political thing I remember was my dad taking me on a train whistle-stop tour by some guy named Richard Nixon.
Anyway, I would say Marie is very conservative, compared to her, I might be a liberal-conservative.
Here’s the note Marie sent me on March 9 that started all this:
“I just wanted to share with you that I think it’s weird that I have been to a number of get-togethers lately where people chitchat about a variety of topics and no one has talked about Iran. Have we just gotten used to never bringing up anything to do with President Donald Trump in case we get in trouble with friends? We can’t even talk about being in a war?”
So I’m asking you, has it come to this?
Are many walking that same tightrope?
Paul W. Smith is host of “Focus” on WJR-AM (760) from noon to 2 p.m. Monday-Friday.