Thoughts From a Small Brown Girl

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Why my atheist parents brought me up Christian

Why my atheist parents brought me up Christian

I was sent to church and Sunday school every Sunday morning. Yawn

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Ariane Sherine
Mar 05, 2025
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Why my atheist parents brought me up Christian
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That’s a nappy in my pants. I’m not secretly a boy.

I was a mixed-up mixed race kid. My mum was Parsi - a kind of Indian that originates from Iran - but she was born in Mombasa, Kenya. Because it was a British colony, my mum held British citizenship, and came to live in the UK when she was 16. My dad was American, but retained his US citizenship and neve…

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