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WE THOUGHT.
We talked.
What if, we said,
what if
in another universe,
a split reality,
God reached out his nger and
lightning struck the Clairmont house?
What if God sent it up in ames?
Thus he would punish the greedy, the petty, the prejudiced, the
normal, the unkind.
They would repent of their deeds.
And after that, learn to love one another again.
Open their souls. Open their veins. Wipe o their smiles.
Be a family. Stay a family.
It wasn’t religious, the way we thought of it.
And yet it was.
Punishment.
Purication through ames.
Or both.
