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Candles on the Eve of War: an Observance on the Passing of George Tiller

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The last time I entered a church was the night of September 11, 2001. I'm not a believer and neither was my partner. We went anyway. We needed to be away from the television hammering our brains with electron flashes of fire and death. We needed to not be alone with that any more.

The church passed out small white candles to everyone who came. We all lit them, one candle to another, and held the flame in our hands in gathering dark and grieved for thousands dead. Tried to understand a hatred without limit, erupting out of another universe, a place of evisceration and burning and screams.


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