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Article: Prayers and miracles.(short story)
- Article from:
- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- December 17, 1997
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1997 The Christian Century Foundation. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Before I could be enrolled in kindergarten, the Episcopal school affiliated with my parents' church required my parents to teach me the Lord's Prayer. So late one summer's evening my mother called me inside,.and I sat between her and my father on the sofa in the den. I had been playing with my best friend, Carla Bensan, who was a year older, and we had been arguing about which hand went at the bottom of the bat, the right or the left. We had just discovered that she was left- and I was right-handed, and we were hitting each other over the head with our plastic bats.
"I killed you," Carla said.
"Killed you first," I said.
"No you didn't."
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