to me despite my insistence that nothing and no-one is a stranger to me. It took less than a glass of wine for our conversation to shift from the warrior’s necessity to the stark acceptance that the only and final solution is turning the other cheek. Whatever else Jesus Christ is, Jesus Christ is also a genius. Only when you turn the other cheek and maintain that stance can the pace of dying finally slow. And in slowing down finally grind to a halt. Wounds become irrelevant. It is impossible to beat a dead horse. The dead cannot be tortured.
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Eileen R. Tabios
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