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Harry and Lorraine: a
mortgage broker and
systems analyst from Marietta, Georgia.
Homeowners, nonsmokers, Presbyterians, aged 43
and 38, married six years and seven months
next Thursday.
One
child
(his, non-resident, by a previous marriage).
Three-bedroom two-bath
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The sky
above the port
was the
color of television,
tuned to a dead
channel.
William Gibson, Neuromancer |
Colonial in a nice seventies development convenient
to schools, churches, and the mall.
One 1992 Honda Accord, blue, one 1995 Toyota Celica SE,
gray. Two cats and assorted tropical fish.
Liabilities of $177,903 against
assets of $232,199.
No known pre-existing conditions or outstanding warrants.
In just a little while their lives will be
changed beyond
recognition.
"What channel is that?"Lorraine
asks.
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Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee
in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine
eyes
and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine
eyes:
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Saul plodded downstairs in flatfooted clump clumps. It was going to be a sunny,
happy day
and he was depressed by it. Earlier this morning, before accidentally eating a cockroach whole
and before sitting on a toilet for an hour in an effort to entice its exit,
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but know thou, that for
all these things God will bring thee into
judgment.
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ECCLESIASTES 11:9
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Saul had known that today
would be odd. The previous night all of his relatives, many quite dead,
a stadium full of them,
had accused him of misspending his
inheritance
on malarial slaves from Uganda.
He hadn't done this.
He woke with
sandpaper
in his eyes again.
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