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“Yes?”

“That thing we talked about? The rain? And the man on the ladder?”

“Yes!?”

“I saw him,” said J C

“My God, J C! Then what did he look like? What—”

“Shh!” he added, forefinger to his serene lips

And returned to Calvary

Constance drove me back to my house just after dawn

There didn’t see in them on my street

Constanceall over me at my front door

“Constance! The neighbors!”

“Neighbors, my patootie!” She kissed me so hard my watch stopped “Bet your wife doesn’t kiss like that!”

“I’d have been dead six o!”

“Hold yourself where it matters, as I slam the door!”

I grabbed and held She slammed and drove off Almost instantly I was filled with loneliness It was like Christ away forever