<h3><u>Reason why Billie called her son Chris a teenage tolstoyan:</u></h3>
A Tolstoyan is someone who believes in simple life and does not believe in possession of wealth and ownership of a property. They oppose all religious teaching which does not comes from Jesus Christ.
Billie calls Chris as Teenage Tolstoyan since Chris had the same influence from young age and now in his teenage, he is an entrepreneur of his own making his own money. Even before his teen, he would sell vegetable in a wagon from their garden on his own.
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