"The majority of my cradle friends did not have cradle parents. We are the first of our kind."

In her lovely essay "Growing Up Eastern in the Bible Belt," Elizabeth Condra explores the challenges of living out the paradox of being a born-&-bred Southerner raised Orthodox.

https://southernorthodox.org/growing-up-eastern-in-the-bible-belt-and-living-to-tell-the-tale/