twelve stones
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The fourth rule of New L’Manberg is this: All your rules are built by tragedy.
Explosives and first strikes, a re-written national anthem. You never get to know the path. You always have to learn.
Fundy will say: “let’s have a celebration.”
And Tommy will reply: “fireworks are banned in New L’Manberg.”
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And he said to the people of Israel, “When your children ask their fathers in times to come, ‘What do these stones mean?’ then you shall let your children know, ‘Israel passed over this Jordan on dry ground.’
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- Part 1 of twelve stones
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Your minutes man helps you with paperwork. His handwriting is nice; pretty and cursive, more like a president's than yours.
"I don't think I'm cut out for this," you say one day, freezing hands squeezed between your thighs. Followed, then, by "don't write that down."
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Cursed before God is the man who sets out to rebuild this city Jericho. He’ll pay for the foundation with his firstborn son, he’ll pay for the gates with his youngest son.
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- Part 2 of twelve stones
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The song comes easy.
You remember all the words. You have to look at nothing. They’re engraved on your bones, seared into your flesh, painted on the inside of your throat. You will never need to look for them.
This is all you were and all you are. At this point in your life, you have lived longer without it than with it. You have never stopped loving it.
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But you, keep yourselves from the things devoted to destruction, lest when you have devoted them you take any of the devoted things and make the camp of Israel a thing for destruction.
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- Part 3 of twelve stones