Christmas Movie Memories: My First Christmas with a Television
Because my parents had been in a cult, that meant no TV in our home until December 1983
My parents were in a cult for the first seven years of my life. Among the many prohibited items were televisions, which meant we didn’t own one until late 1983, about a year and a half after the collapse of the cult. My parents were not well off (again, thanks largely to the aforementioned cult, which had fleeced them to…
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