A holiday in rural Tennessee in the plague years

[Hortensis]

5. :) Sounds very like a funeral we attended for the father of friends.

He was very old, had lived there in rural north Georgia all his life, as had most of the members of his church. We were definitely odd ones out. We're vaccinated but it was inside, so we came late and found ourselves not unexpectedly the only ones with masks in a packed church of at least 150 nice people, sat in the far back, and left asap.

Not religious ourselves we were unable to depend on a loving god and just did what we could to avoid joining the honorees to come. Rude performance overall, but our friends excuse our California heathen foibles and don't expect more from us.