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Show CHRYSALIS PAGE 38 Whatever happened to Baby Dumpling and the rocking chair, and all those pop-bottles full of sand? Nicodemus had no shoes, so who was it stepped in everybody's pie? Jesus loves me, this I know. I'll be a sunbeam for Him. I love Jesus. I love cats. Cue-ball is ray cat. He rides in the little buggy and sings. A sunbeam, a sunbeam, Jesus wants me for a sunbeam. Loves. By pinching is how people who love each other very much get babies. (I was stunned when mother told me how people do. get babies. "Do you remember that word I told you not to say?" Mother must have been acutely embarrassed. "That's what people do." She never said the word, but that was my sex education. I knew that such bizarre activities occurred, whatever they were called. But I could not imagine why anyone would want to do such things, and cartainly, if they did, it didn't concern me. We never talked about "it" again.) Mark's breathing becomes deep and regular. He is asleep. Why can't I sleep? I trace his eyebrows with ray finger, but he doesn't wake. I love you. I love you. Everything is going to be all right now, isn't it, Mark? Please. |