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Some of these stories, it is understood, are not to be passed on to my father, because they would upset him. It is well known that women can deal with...more

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I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not know...more

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Had she believed all that? Old Pilar's folklore? No, not really; or not exactly. Most likely Pilar hadn't quite believed it either, but it was a reass...more

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Debt . . . . that peculiar nexus where money, narrative or story, and religious belief intersect, often with explosive force.

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By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, I believe you're there, I believe you into being. Because I'm telling you this story I w...more

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By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, I believe you're there, I believe you into being.