Note from the Editor:
Muslim tour guides aren’t something most Marines are willing to consider, but the latest bitch’s family (at least half of it) was Muslim. You know how it goes; when your bitch, or her relatives, do a thing, you try the thing, seeing if it will make things work a little better. It didn’t.
Road-trips out of town and out of state got me up into the heart of Jersey City and New York City, which is where they all lived and worked. It was cool at first; they were polite and chatty, they treated me to some nice restaurants, and her father even sat down to smoke cigars with me. He had a sea-bag just like mine, and a flak and kevlar he’d kept from his own service during the war. My nervousness faded away rapidly, thanks to him (and most of them), and we even rode together in my Jeep to explore several attractions and towns. Her brother was very kind to me, too, which was amazing for me, having experience the rudest brothers ever back during high school.
There was no way I was going to convert to yet another Abrahamic torture-based belief-system, but it was nice to see that it was possible to get along with people who sorta subscribed to that stuff. It was nice to see that at least half of my latest bitch’s relatives were decent people (the first half I’d met being rude, unkempt, money-hungry assholes with short fuses, road rage, and immature attitudes, to say the least). I think that was all they were meant to help happen for me then; these were the transition-manifestations, both of us learning from and calibrating to the other, in that way.
My first encounter with Muslims was a little rough here; my relationship with the dad’s daughter didn’t work out, but he and I had never had issues with each other, so we just parted ways when the time came, I even typing up a long and nice letter explaining everything. My next interaction outside the military with Muslims would be far more agreeable; I wouldn’t be meeting the family, and it wouldn’t end in sparks. My third, no doubt, would be to take command, reshaping their entire realm –with their blessing.
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