The annual trip to St. Marys, Kansas has become a recent family tradition. Every year about a dozen of us converge on the quiet town to pay a visit to my Aunt Johanna, alias Sister Mary Athanasius. Now, in Kansas, just about everything is legal, but I observed that the sisters in St. Marys weren't exactly taking full advantage of their fortuitous geographical location.

I noticed that Kansas has little to no legislation governing the use or sale of fireworks, a favorite pastime of mine. It seemed perfectly logical that nuns would love to partake in such a flaming-hot and dangerous tradition. As it turned out, nuns really like fireworks. I have supplied them with their yearly pyromania fix ever since.

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