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I wrap my ar on the ground for a long time

Finally, Isaac breaks the silence, "Do you think a person can be born again?"

"You ion?"

"No, not that way Just you open your eyes and you see everything fresh and in a neay" We are still locked together and I stare out over his shoulder at the green trees and the sparkling grasses on the other side of the river, trying to understand what he oes on, "and you rolled away the stone Not everyone gets a second chance"

"It was a very heavy stone," I joke, but he isn’t joking

"Coo of hie of the water "Lie down" He looks at me funny but does what I say "On your back"

I cup both ers through his hair He doesn’t struggle I don’t have to hold hi?"

"I’ me?"

"In the name of the sun, and the trees, and the holy water"

Then Isaac Bluht down on him so that our bodies are one, and in the shallows of the Hope, we baptize each other