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  1. Sarah Vowell _ Take the Cannoli: Stories From

    It was made clear to me that I wasn't supposed to trouble the moody Creator with any pesky questions about the eccentricities of His cosmic system. So when I asked about stuff that confused me, like "How come we're praying for the bar to be shut down when Jesus himself turned water into wine?", I was shushed and told to have faith. Thus my idea of heaven was that I got to spend eternity sitting at the feet of God, grilling Him. "Let me get this straight," I'd say by way of introduction. "It's your position that every person ever born has to suffer because Eve couldn't resist a healthy between-meals snack?" Once I got the metaphysical queries out of the way I could satisfy my curiosity about how He came up with stuff I was learning about in school, like photosynthesis.
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  2. Sarah Vowell _ Take the Cannoli: Stories From

    Everyone says that love requires the utmost honesty, but that's not entirely true. Once I knew that my father was suffering for my sake-really suffering-I learned that love, especially the parental kind, requires the heartwarming sacrifice that can only accompany fake enthusiasm.
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