Happy to have found this happy forum

[joeoleson]

Looking forward to your posts.

[Anti-antidisestablishmentarianism]

70 years ago I was born into an orthodox Jewish family living in a little town in South Africa.  In 1948, after being crippled by polio which took the life of one of my sisters, I started to question the existence of any god.  After being detained by South Africa's secret police, I realized that there was no god and made the transition from agnosticism to atheism.

In 1975 my family emigrated to the United States to escape South Africa's apartheid regime. 

I'm retired and keep busy working for animal welfare causes and caring for 4 rescued cats and 2 dogs.  3 of our pets are missing limbs and, had they not been rescued, would have been euthanized.

Welcome! Some people think they have had hard lives.  Stories like this are quite humbling.  Great that you dedicate yourself to a good cause.