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From where he stood, the best approach was to confront the book head-on, match wits with its author, and defeat him. The women saints were real;the cross was tangible driftwood that had come to whatever island it was that thesewomen saints occupied; but a Will you just listen? That’s what he meant at the hospital. Unsure what a recidivist was, I told my parents what I’d done.

You have a husband. And everything elseisn’tsmall. “That’s it?” I ask. “So it’s true?” he said.