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Show 70 sometimes ask while adjusting someone's angel wings. No, thank you. Gold wise man had no lines or facial expressions, and the least complicated costume-a red, velvety hat and a small, plastic treasure chest. The other two wise men had purple, Heffner-style robes to wear, and they had to carry around delicate ornaments that someone guessed could hold frankincense or myrrh, whatever those were. All I had to do was leave that chest at cabbage patch Jesus' plastic feet when the person reading from the Bible said "gold," or when people started looking at me, then I could lean into the background and start counting down the minutes, knowing the worst was over. I didn't recognize most of the child actors this year. Angie's husband Darrell always read the Bible version of the birth of Christ. While he read, I was thinking through a rolodex of unrelated things: when we were going to get out of there, if I would ever have sex, what I was going to do when we got home, and my brother in Ecuador. These last two categories started to blur together because, while preparing for his mission, the hardest habit for my brother to give up had been swearing-he convinced my sister to throw out all of her R-rated movies because they were a bad influence, and he cut off relationships with a lot of his friends. For me, this meant I would have to watch Little House on the Prairie or a Disney movie if I wanted to watch anything that night. I wondered how long it would take my brother to be engaged when he got home, guessed it would probably take about six months. I imagined his fiance: I think her name would be Annette. She would be a Timpview High School graduate who now went to BYU. She would have strawberry blonde hair and freckles and enjoy dancing, |
