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She sain “I suppose we’re all on our own spiritual journeys”

“So than others”

She put the book down and climbed into his lap “I don’t think of it that way I think we chase God until He catches us”

Gabriel chuckled “Like The Hound of Heaven?”

“Sos I admire most about you is your compassion for human frailty”

“I have my own vices, Gabriel They’re just hidden”

She looked around the roo the vacuum marks in the carpet and the freshly dusted furniture The air sreat Thank you for finding soet a lot of work done today”

“Good” He looked at her over the ri?”

“Much better Thanks fordinner” She rested her head on his shoulder

“You weren’t hungry when I brought it up to you” He ran his fingers through her hair

“I finished it eventually I ran into a probleh to eat”

“Can I help?” He re the that you’re the brains behind ” Gabriel sounded offended

“I need to do this myself”

He sniffed “I think you worry a little too much about what other people think”

“I have to,” she said sharply “If I present a paper that sounds like you wrote it, people will notice Christa Peterson has already been spreading rumors about us Paul told oing backward in her career, not forward Coluram in Italian They wouldn’t admit her directly into their PhD I’ve already spoken to the head of her department at Columbia She slanders us at her peril” He shifted in his chair “And ere you speaking to Paul?”

“He emailed me after the conference he went to at UCLA That’s where he saw Christa and heard the ru”

“You haven’t even let h we’ve discussed Guido so much I’m sure I knohat you’ll say”