bonafide you sound bonafide to me. But you do sound a bit non American and the fact that you mention that you have served in a foreign country explains that. Farkel things have changed since you were in the troof - (my husband calls it the elder's handbook for example).
Bonafide when they make their way into the backroom, look on it as a show of posturing and phantom authority (lol they have to do that to remind themselves and the cong that they are elders, as the wts has decimated their standing and the wise ones know it). When I was first leaving I used to imagine them sitting on the toilet - lol.
There is a difference between those who still attend and those who left years ago.
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