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Board Administrator Username: mjm Post Number: 3784 Registered: 11-1998 |
Honorable Mention The Atheist Gary Blankenship a credit card account representative one of 67 on the 9th floor of an office complex NW of the city a hour’s commute each way two kids – a girl into adolescence and angst a boy in cub scouts and little league his wife sings in the church choir plays cards on Tuesday afternoon and reminds parents to bring game day refreshments weekends he golfs and putters around house and lawn while the family is at Sunday School evenings he assists the coach reads Watts and Will plans the next vacation finishes work from the office and catches Law and Order on the tube his coworker in the next office reads nearly the same except his oldest is a boy says he doesn’t watch tv or read heathens and is deacon for a neighborhood church * his brother believes but doesn’t go to church except for weddings and funerals his sister prays to Jesus Christ at Wednesday night bingo and Thursdays at the casino his father has cursed God since his wife died of cancer 23 years earlier * he golfs with a pastor has fished with a father and traded jokes with a rabbi as their kids fumbled through a pre-school play when he dies he will leave memories, decent enough deeds, and a legacy – grandchildren he knows miracles when he sees them |
