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I Run and Pray the Rosary
for my friend Greg.Cancer is trying to kill him,and so I begfor chemo to save him,a respite from his pain.I pray The Sorrowful Mysteriesand realize again that none of...
My Mother’s Teeth
My mother’s teeth were kept in a bottlemarked with the sign of the cross. I usedto shake it till they’d rattle,interest and childish horror fused.They weren’t her teeth. They...
Virgil in Limbo
“There is a place down there, not saddened by torments but only by darkness, where the laments do not sound as shrieks but are sighs.” —Purgatorio, VII: 29–31 What...
