About a week after I got a job at a university, I noticed a myriad of 'Andersons' 'Olsons' and 'Johnsons' and then realized that it was a Swedish Covenant organization (ie, a church started by Swedes in Minnesota in the mid nineteenth century).
I wondered, shortly thereafter, whom I beat out to get this job, and really what sort of qualifications I had over them. (After all, my name also ends 'son')
Alas, I like working here, and made a painting for their Santa Lucia pageant. I may or may not have dressed up as this girl when I was nine, complete with candles, big white dress thing, red sash, and singing. May or may not have...
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