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I ods available already and therefore don’t need the tract, and then there are people ill never believe in this sort of thing And I iuys in betweenharassed on their way to and fro to change the subject

"Oh, I’m homeschooled"

"So your erly at the people co ht eird, since I was the only person who had taken her paht? She was a classic feeous, a real dame

"Why?" I said

"Why what?"

"Why are you homeschooled?"

"My parents want me to have a Christian education"

"What’s that?" I said, just to keep the conversation going

"An education rooted in the Bible"

"Oh"

"Jesus loves you," she said to an old nored her outstretched paave me, "can we talk about it afterward?"

She turned to face me and her eyes lit up "Are you serious? You’ll really read it and consider giving your life to Jesus Christ?"

"Sure," I said, and then laughed I reed to read her tracts She was acting like a little excited kid, but she had to be about er, et really excited about soh she was getting excited about Jesus, I liked the fact that she was genuinely keyed up about anything

She said, "Do you want to come to my church this Sunday?"

"Let me read this and we can talk about it"

"Hoill you contactto read it on that bench over there and then we can talk, okay?"

She bit down on her bottom lip and nodded way too enthusiastically--like it sort of creepedthat Lauren Bacall so where she squints sophisticatedly and looks up at her man from under her eyebrows or seductively out of the corners of her eyes, I probably would have left right then

When I started toward the bench, she said, "Oh, wait," and then began shuffling through her papers She smiled and said, "Read this one instead," and extended a new paers"

"Okay" I sat down on the bench and read it in about five minutes

It was sort of unbelievable

Actually, it was a little insane--and should have been ist is that there are four teenagers in a convertible, out "cruising"--two guys, two girls They go to the woods to "park," which I gather basically means to drink beer, onist of the paain Christian" and feeling a bit conflicted about the "sins" that are happening In the little bubble over the kid’s head it said soo all the ith her, but I know Jesus would be disappointed inbeer"44

At one point you get the protagonist’s view of the front seat--it’s one of those old-style front seats that’s like a bench with no space in between the driver and passenger, or no center console, which makes me think this is a very old tract--irl’s naked ankles sticking up in the air, which I guess irl in the backseat, says to the protagonist, "You know you wanna Let’s have sos?"

The next fra a beer

And then we see the home and the driver’s eyes are slits, which I assuet a close-up of Johnny’s face next, and the bubble over his head reads, "I let you down, Jesus Sex Booze I’ive me?"

You won’t believe this but the next fra into a tree, and then we see Johnny’s ghost floating up to heaven, which is when I figured out that he was dead I was sort of happy that the other three teenagers lived at least, but I couldn’t figure out the point of the story

The pa with Jesus, who has a typical Jesus beard and white robe and halo, but Jesus kind of looks like a professional baseball player to me and I’y hair and a beard, but he’s clean-cut at the sa Do you knohat I mean?

"I’m so sorry I let you down, Jesus," Johnny says

"You asked forgiveness and I have forgiven you because you are a Christian," Jesus said, which I thought was pretty nice

"Thank you for sparing the lives of ets this really sad look on his face, which lets you know that the friends didn’t live, and I alht there, because I was pretty sure I knehat sort of bullshit was co "Why didn’t you tell your friends about me before they died?" Jesus says "You had so many opportunities"

"My friends died?" Johnny says with this horrible look on his face

The next fra their faces as a sea of flaulfs theht noith you, Johnny, but you didn’t tell them about me," Jesus says

Johnny puts his head in his hands and weeps