A tisket, a taskin. I trapped him in the basket. He begged for me to set him free.

But I knew he would come for me.

But listen to Spooked. Stay true.

As a young child, I felt that my parents, my mother and my father, I felt they loved me very much. I did, truly.

It was just that they, and those people from their church they were fighting something

Titanic, something urgent, demonic.

Because their apostle Herbert W. Armstrong preached that this was the end of days and they

had to meet with each other, had to pray, to fast, to study their Bibles, to listen to cassette tapes from the

headquarters church in Pasadena, California, and run the farm. Farms, even failing farms,

like ours, do not run themselves. So they worked, and they worked, and they worked from

sun up to far past sundown.

Every night with the exhaustion, I heard the fear, the terror behind my father's goodnight

apologies.

Don't worry, he promised.

The kingdom of God will be here soon.

Then we'll have all eternity to play ball and go swimming and climb trees.

I told him it was okay.

But I didn't mind.

And it was true, I didn't mind.

Even as he asked forgiveness for not having the time to spend on me, I just want to be alone.

I like being alone because I never felt alone.

I saw them mostly out of the corner of my eye.

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