I traveled to Brazil on my twenty-second birthday and Candomblé — admittedly, spirituality in general — was something I tended to dismiss as folkloric and time-wasting before then. I attended a primary Catholic school and have lasting memories of corrupting but mandatory weekly confessions, as well as kneeling in front of a life-sized Jesus made of […]
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