Seriously, Easter is so intertwined with ancient spring fertility rituals and symbolisms - the egg, the hatching chicks, those bunnies; we know what they do! That's why there's that joke about being reborn as a rabbit in Montana!
Now if you get pregnant in the spring, you're likely to have a baby in the winter, but maybe that was a good thing when are ancestors were hunting and gathering, and mainly caving in cold places. Would there be enough food stored away or found under the snow to survive till spring? Funny how Lent has become a time to FAST! Then comes the Easter basket of PLENTY ; chocolate and marshmallow bunnies, birds, and eggs - covered in foil, and not to forget jelly beans. One of my cousins actually boils and dyes eggs and then bakes them in a sweet bread.
What's a person who has been trying to avoid fertility their whole life supposed to do? (If there were anything to these spring fertility rituals and rites, I suppose not much, other than avoid sex.)
Have you found any Easter basket-friendly candy designs that are NOT about fertility symbols?
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