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She says her foot started hurting but she didn't think it was anything to worry about. Then she felt
a small bump, but for some reason she doesn't think anything of it. The bump gets bigger and then
she finally has it checked out. It's cancer. She thinks to herself, "Who has cancer in their foot?"
What are the chances that something like this would happen to her? Is it fate?

So she had to get her foot amputated and have a fake one replace her old one. The entire time she
was resting in the hospital, she says Silvio, her then husband, only visited her once. She thought
that he felt like she wasn't pretty anymore. That he couldn't have a cripple for a wife. Here is a
woman who needs just that one person but they aren't there, and then here is my father who has
everyone there for him but he doesn't want anyone.

After she got out she confronted him and it was obvious that he was seeing someone else, so she
filed for divorce. She always suspected that Claire was the mistress, but she never had any proof.

Her suspicions grew even more a little while ago when Silvio found her in the hotel and gave her a
beating. The only person who knew where she was staying was Claire. She says that the reason she
moved to this town was to get away from him, but somehow he found out where she moved to, and
he came looking. Again, she thinks Claire was the one who told him.

At first I find the situation a little strange, for two sisters to be involved with the same man, but
then again the world is a strange place. This strangeness is what ultimately gets me to seek
solitude.

I ask her why then does she seem so friendly with her sister. She says that while she thinks her
sister may have betrayed her, she can't be certain of that. She says that Silvio may just be forcing
these things out of her. Lynne has quite a story, but then again everyone has a story to tell,
everyone's a writer. Some more than others, some less.

Chapter 22:
ALL MEN ARE DESTROYED EQUALLY

There are some hospitals that have no room thirteen. People are just as afraid of superstition as
they are their diseases or conditions. Some people are anyway. I'm sitting next to Joe and I'm
reading him a dream from one of my composition notebooks.

In the dream, Jesus and I are in the middle of an ocean and we are fishing and talking about
religion. I ask Jesus if he thinks that the world would be better without any religion at all, and he
says to me that while the intentions of most religions are good, when these intentions are mixed
with human instincts there is a chance that they may become corrupt.

He says that one's individual pursuit for truth is much better than a group's pursuit for truth. That
we must each find our own kind of wisdom by ourselves. He says that when one person is
bombarded with so much information and knowledge by another person or by a group of people,
that they will become radicalized if they believe what they hear too quickly.

He says if the seed that is planted in their heart grows too quickly, they will give no thought to what
has been preached to them. They become obsessed with their new lifestyle and their new ways of