Word: fauth
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Because his parents, both of whom were highly religious, were skeptical of the benefits of a secular education, Fauth's formal schooling ended with the eighth grade. And even during these years, Fauth's education was sporadic, for his parents' religious work involved much travel and took him out of school for as much as a year and a half at a time, he says...
...during those younger years, when he was required by law to attend school and learn math, history, and English, Fauth's life involved a lot of juggling; at the end of each school day he returned home to his father, a priest, and a household in which the number one priority was God. His home life mainly involved worship and working on his family's alfalfa farm...
After the eighth grade, Fauth worked as a day laborer on the farms in the area, he says. At age 17, he moved, along with his parents, to Jerusalem, where his dad became the pastor of a church at which Fauth's grandfather had been the priest...
...this point in recounting his history, Fauth's speech becomes more vague. He stayed more or less under his parents' wing, he says working for a church newspaper distributed to American churches from Jerusalem. And sometimes during those years he got out on his own and traveled around most of the Middle East...
...hadn't intended to be away [from America for] that long, but one year becomes the next," Fauth says about his time in Israel. His speech is filled with a sense of the general, as if a decade and more of his life had passed him by almost inconsequentially...