All last week the song, "It's a Jolly Holiday with Mary" was going through my head. I'm trying to figure out if that meant Mary Poppins or the Virgin Mary. I don't think of the Virgin Mary as being particularly jolly. Is anyone in the Bible jolly?
Marys have had a not so jolly romp through history:
England’s Queen Mary - was a bloody terror
Mary Deare was never jolly, she was always a wreck
Mary Stuart – lost her not-so jolly head
Mary Mallon – spreading Tyhoid everywhere
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