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He boxed a lot after it all happened. At the gym in town, in Samson’s garage. He watched re-runs of games taped by the guy he didn’t kill and he made things from felled wood. He boxed and he cheered teams he didn’t care about and he cut his hand on a rusty chisel he should’ve taken the time to scrape clean and he came to you in the rectory and showed you his bruised knuckles like you were a nurse come to scoop him up off the schoolyard.You did scoop him up. You did bathe his hands. Let him slide his lap full of you in the clerk’s office. Only after the door was shut, though, the curtains drawn. You weren’t stupid. You knew some people had died. You knew some people were still alive. There was a cancer in this place, carved into the bedrock. You knew it’d never really be cut out.