The religious maniac is a distant relative and only through marriage. I've only met him once, at my aunt's funeral. A truly bizarre dude. And yes, he really said, "the Lord was with him on that one," and couldn't let a minute go by without mentioning God or Jesus. Also a physical fitness fanatic, but more than just a guy who keeps in shape. There's 1 Corinthians 6:19, the verse about your body being a temple of the Holy Spirit. He strongly believes that when he works out he's glorifying God. A jock for Jesus, doing pushups for the Lord.
Sadly, Jack and Dan are real and are in fact the same person. Sarah married him when she was too young to know any better but finally got out of the emotionally abusive marriage. You can imagine what growing up in that sort of family did to their daughter. She's an adult now and has some problems. Anyway, he's a pure bastard but fortunately I only have to see him once in a blue moon. I could write a whole book about that SOB.
And we're not doing any gatherings because of COVID. Everything else is fictional, my attempt at humor. I kinda wish there was an Uncle Fred, he might liven things up.
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