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"The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it."
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"I couldn't get that same feeling during the day, with my hands in dirty dish water and the hard sun showing up the dirtiness on the roof tops. And after a time, even at night, the feeling of God didn't last."
"I used to lie between cool, clean sheets at night after I'd had a bath, after I had washed my hair and scrubbed my knuckles and finger-nails and teeth. Then I could lie quite still in the dark with my face to the window with the trees in it, and talk to God."
"But I was sure of one thing. If God were a father, with children, that cleanliness I had been feeling wasn't God."
"I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment."
"I just knew that God wasn't there. He was a man on a throne in Heaven, so he was easy to forget."
"It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had reached past him. Why couldn't they see it? It still puzzles me."
"I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was... nothingness."
"I think God just died of old age. And, when I realized that he wasn't any more, it didn't shock me. It seemed natural and right!"
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