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“I have stood at the very edge. I have looked into the abyss. If I’d have taken one more step, I would have fallen. But no matter how far I ran away from God, he was still waiting ahead.”

“We both should. We have been unhappy long enough.”                                                                                                                                            “Then let us dare.”

“Through your skin to your bones crawling like the scorpion up, reaching. You have a scar on the back of your neck. Blood! There are tram cars outside the window. A city! More blood! You were hurt by a man. He would have killed you, Had you not killed him first.”                                                                                                                                                                              “Do you believe me?”

I’ll tell you what happened. I was at home, yesterday night past. And I was helping my son with a wooden ship model. That’s something we do. And he asked me about the ship. I said it was the kind of ship used for exploring the seas. And he said, “Where do they explore, Father?” And I told him, “Everywhere. The Orient, Peru, and even the frozen North.” And he says, “What’s that, Father?” And so I told him it was the places all covered with snow. North of Scotland and even beyond that. And he said, “Do people live there?” And I said, “No. It’s too cold and lonely all the time. No one lives there.”

“Have you sinned?”                                                                                                                                     “Everyone has sinned.”

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Vanessa quotes from Alfred Tennyson’s “Maud, Locksley Hall, and Other Poems.”