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My Daddy’s hands were like burnt maps. He said if we wanted to learn how to conquer the world, all we needed to do was look at his hands.
every time I see a dark space, like a shadow, or an empty corner, or a black hole - I just think there's a man of smoke sitting in that dark space, filling it up. And his legs are open and his arms are open, real wide like, and ready to take me in. And he says, 'I'm here for you, Jeanine, I'm waiting for you in every space you're afraid of.' And that's how I can go into the woods at night and why I don't get stuck to the floor waiting for my prophet brother to come home. Because of the man of smoke. " "That kind of sounds like God," I said. "It's nothing like God," Jeanine responded. “It's
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