@Ken U Belevitt yeah, i was raised catholic, left as a teenager over abortion (and lgbt+ rights but mostly abortion), and now am a unitarian universalist
didn't finish this thought. where i was going with it is that even after leaving the church, i occasionally attended mass for a while as a social thing. i'd go at christmas, and went a couple times with my aunt and uncle the summer i lived with them, because it was good family time. also, i got to uu in part via universalism, the belief i alluded to earlier that everyone goes to heaven.
you find yourself letting go of any existing hang ups when you get older. I think it was a younger me that never would have believed I'd go back to college at 36
So... if you were drafting a cast (let's say voice, as if animated, and then, as if live action (preferred)... so do it as "cast/cast") for a potential Carmen movie (big movie... think Fellowship Of The Rings-level big... (assuming someone had a big enough story/script, and could find all the other people)... who would you want?
I'm working on continuing it, but input would be good. Maybe if it could be finished, maybe it could be printed as a book, or maybe sold as a movie (only for a big amount, and the original author get's a big cut)... if anyone, after reading through that folder (it's a live folder, so updates on my end go live when I save. If you have something to add, stash it someplace and let me know... I'll try to work it in as the story stands.))