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"So' talk to me."
"I will, but words take time."
''I'll wait."
..,"1 know."
"What will you do?"
, "I don't know; but do you always sit on the altar?" . h to
"It's comfortable, an' I can see better-you gotta be up hig he
see the people kneeling behind of the wooden pews-and they are ~at
ones I look out for. The ones that hide from me are the ones t if
need. me.' An' you're not supposed to say 'I don't know' excep~ I
you' 're gonna find out. An' don't change the subject. You 're bemg
sneaky;"
"Yeah, but I'm confused, too."
"You know I don't give out free answers."
"Yep, but you make me think."
"So what are you thinking?"
"T'm wondering who I am."
','Who would you like to be?"
, "Me, I guess: That's most important. But sometimes I get on
mtoy-hnideerv."es. I don't seem to be real. I can't communicate. I want
, ~'Why pick here?"
".'Cause you're here."
" , "Yeah, but I'm with you all the time." .
"I know, but like I said-I can't communicate. I feel kmda
funny getting caught talking to myself when it's you I'm talking ~o.
Most people don't think ofme as running around with Jesus H. Christ
as my best buddy."
"Perhaps."
"Mm.".
, "Why communicate?"
"Thar was my question."
"I asked it first."
"Which leaves me __ "
"To answer it."
"Crap, fine buddy you are."
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