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Meet the "Liberal" Mr. & Mrs. Buttons: noted author Taylor Caldwell tells of her childhood encounters with the "thriftiness" of Liberals and how these experiences turned her into a "grim 'Conservative.'". (Opinion past).
Recently a flowery young "Liberal" male with flowing hair and flowing hands -- and a flowing tongue, too -- demanded of me that I explain why and when I became a "Conservative." He wanted to know how I got this way.
Frankly, I couldn't remember just how and when, and I went home musing to myself. I searched my memory and soon it all began to click in my mind, episode after episode -- all of them very painful one way or another. There are doubtless a hundred psychiatrists around who will find the following recounting of those formative experiences very interesting.
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It all began, doctors, when I was a child. A "Liberal" aunt ...
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