Joseph
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I Love You Like Meat Loves Salt
acting, Appalachian history, audience, baby doll, blood-curdling, Catholic school, cats, cry, daughters, Dave Tabler, ear deafening, fable, father, first grade, folktale, grade school, human baby, Joan of Arc, John W, Joseph, kid, king, kingdom, little girl, live, meat loves salt, men, no offense, parable, performance, scream, servants, St. Gertrude, stray cat, third grade, wailMy very first acting role was in first grade of a Catholic school in the early 70’s (you can do the math, it’s fine) at the Christmas Nativity scene play, where I played the role of Jesus’ mom, Mary. During rehearsals for the play, we had a plain little baby doll of no particular sex…