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    "What sense is there in pain at all--however we contrive it for ourselves as we cast about for ways to bind up the wound between us and God?"
    -- Anne Carson

     

    He had thought he would talk about the cases. The children lost. The dubious decisions he’d made in order to do his job. Will and Feardorcha and Scarlet and God. He had at least believed he would have a word or two to say about God. Instead, when he’d started talking, he had talked about Robbie Lewis, about the ways he had allowed himself to change as Lewis’s Sergeant, and the ways he hadn’t even realized he’d changed by simply being, wanting to be, needing to be, a part of Robbie’s life.

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