Chapter Six

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Chapter Six, A Dream

Around the same time, I had a dream which seems more like a poignant persistence of reality.

“Why do you think you want to love God?” she asked, so sadly.


“Because it makes people happy.”


“And don’t you want to be happy too?”

“I do. I do. I do.”

She began to sob, slowly at first, and then wildly; then the sobs overtook me too. She wrapped her arms around me so tightly that I started suffocating and I was expecting death at any moment.

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