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…and pulled them on as she started down the hill. Her feet seemed to
fly over the ground. She felt weightless, so light that she could have
floated down the hill and over Emblem like a female Peter Pan. She
could see Morley’s pickup ahead of her in the distance. Was he feeling
the same way? Did he feel as happy as she did?
They were friends again, what more could she ask? They had always
been friends, but for a few months they had lost sight of that
fact because of the hurt they had inflicted on each other. At first she
had blamed him for walking out on her, and had thought she would
not forgive him until he apologized. Then one day, while repeating
The Lord’s Prayer at mass, it had suddenly come to her … forgive us
our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. If she wanted
God to forgive her sins, she must forgive Morley.
But, after all, was she not as much to blame as him? She had kept
him dangling, waiting for her to choose between him and her church,
between him and her parents. She had often wondered if he had forgiven
her for that. Now she knew he had, because he was the same
Morley he had always been. And that Morley would always forgive.
Forgiveness was an integral part of his faith.
She skipped along the sidewalk, eager to tell Aunt Millie about the
encounter at the hospital site, eager to tell the one who understood
her better than anyone else in the world that she and Morley were
friends again, nothing more. And they would never be anything less.
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