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%u00a9Jack Fritscher, Ph.D., All Rights ReservedHOW TO LEGALLY QUOTE FROM THIS BOOKWhat They Did to the Kid 135When things were good, Oh Lord, we should have stopped all the clocks. Tick. Tick. No Tick. Nothing destroys me but myself. Pitiable destruction. So small a chastisement for my words. Unfair I should find myself capable only of destroying myself. If You will to drive me mad, Oh Lord, do it from without. Make Hank or Gunn or Karg the villain. Them I can handle. Deliver me from within. Don%u2019t turn my very insides against me. Don%u2019t let me destroy myself. Let me understand. Make something full of grace happen to me. Make me start to live. Don%u2019t bring me to the steps of death. Don%u2019t ever let me die without being ordained a priest. You could...push me into the darkness...easily...so easily...as once before when from outside, during the War, banging the gurney into that blazing white surgical room, before I could talk, pulling at me, they gassed me, to push me back to where there was no word and no time. Oh God, why do I hold back? If my vanity can%u2019t have a perfect vocation, my modesty will settle for an imperfect one. Whatever is Your will. Why can%u2019t I admit for all time I have a vocation, exactly as required, so finally I can grow into it? Why do I resist my superiors? I am vain. I am prideful. I want to be a priest, Oh Lord. I%u2019ll bend my will. You know You called me; so help me answer Your call.