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Ever think about how the things we look at and watch AFFECT us?  I’m speaking mainly of programs on TV;  about TV movies too. 

I recall when my daddy and mother got their first TV.  Right soon after daddy got hooked on professional wrestling.  Cause it was and is as real as , “I’ll pay you Saturday” - turns out they didn’t say WHICH Saturday. 

Although daddy was an extremely sensible man, he would take anybody to task who said TV wrestling wasn’t on the up-and-up:

“You know it’s real, how else can you explain the blood?”  Daddy was what is know as a TRUE BELIEVER,  regarding TV wrestling.  One of the reason I expect is he did a lot of ‘rasslin” growing up.  “It’s clean”, he would say, “You’re not trying to hit somebody.” although they did “hit” each other on TV a lot. 

But the best part of the whole deal was watching Daddy, watching wrestling.  Always on the edge of his chair, he would go through all the holds, grimacing and hollering-out, to the point he would sometimes go nearly to the floor.  One got the impression that daddy was not in his own home, but he was really in that wrestling ring.  I once asked a retired wrestler about the blood. 

“Simple”, he said.  “You held a double edged razor blade in your mouth; when you blood, you bit down on it.”

“You’ve got to be kiddin”, I said.

“No, honest to goodness.  Its one of the tricks of the trade”, he assured. 

Daddy went to his heavenly home a TRUE BELIEVER, first in his Lord - lastly in TV wrestling. 

Old song: “Sweet Fern; Sweet Fern, oh tell me is my darlin’ still true…”

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