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Delilah screamed

The cue

With a ain and began with greater effort to shove against the "stone" columns My heart was in in to bulge As God restored Sa everyone!

Stage hands had cleverly arranged a large a junk to clatter down andrectangles of thin eance in a personal way Strangely enough, as the lights turned red, and the records of people screaht she felt so hard brush her shoulder

Just before the curtain lowered, I saw Jory fall froe false boulder that struck him on his back and head

He sprawled face down on the floor, blood spurting from his cuts! Horrified to realize that sand didn't pour harmlessly out of the broken and tuan to screae

My knees buckled beneaththe terrible vision of Jory flat on his face with the column smashed down on his lower back

A second colus

The curtain was do

Applause thundered I tried to rise and reach Jory, but ht lanced and saw that it was Bart Soon I was on the stage, staring down at the broken body of my first son

I couldn't believe what I saw NotJory Not the little boy who'd asked when he was three, "A, Mamma?"

"Yes, Jory, you are dancing"

"Aood, Momma?"

"No, Joryyou are wonderful!"

Notphysical, beautiful and heartfelt Not my Jorymy Julian's son