to audition for the role of seductress. Had they taken a wrong turn?
The church is packed this Easter Sunday. Colorful-wide-brimmed hats hide the narrowing eyes of older women whose straight faces mask horror and disdain. The preacher at the pulpit prays, “Lord take the rein,” before announcing an unplanned opening hymn. “We shall overcome.”
Gale Acuff
As Seen on TV
After Sunday School I walk home the same way I walk to it but in reverse of course not that I mean that I was walking backwards but maybe I'll try that next week but anyway on the way about half -way that is I thought again of what I thought of before, I mean on the way here, I mean to Sunday School--seems that I took it away with me--of Miss Hooker, my teacher there and one day to be my wife and in reality not just in dreams and I have 'em, about us, together, married that is and doing every night what married people do, watching TV and holding hands and munching popcorn though
not while holding hands but on the other hand maybe so, why not, adults do all kinds of crazy crap that kids can't do and get away with it but anyway when we run out of popcorn and are down to kernels that never got ripe, so to speak, I mean they never popped (I'm bad about
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