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“God spare anyone from a discussion with you.”
“I want you to sign this.”
“Is this a test of my fidelity?”
“Yes.”
“Why?”
“Because everything is a test.”
“Like life,” I said, “is a test to see if you’ll get into heaven?”
“Witness it.” He pushed the pen toward me.
“Aren’t you going to read it first?”
“It only says one thing. January wants to make a movie out of Arma-
geddon. Let her. She shot the special that turned Logan on to Kick. She
made something happen. Maybe she can turn Kick back on to me. Maybe
lightning can strike twice.”
“Certainly you don’t think a made-for-TV movie can bring Kick
back.”
“I’ll try anything.”
“It’s a long shot.”
“If I don’t have hope, I don’t have anything. I want him to hear my
voice, my words, one last time.”
The movie, telecast out over the airwaves to wherever Kick might be,
he saw as his one final chance to communicate with the man who had
once been the flavor of the month.
“I’m going to read this contract first, including the small print,” I
said.”
“As long as you sign it.”
The next morning we drove into Santa Rosa to mail the option con-
tract with both our signatures. He was depressed. He had always been
depressed.
“Why can’t people leave love alone?” he asked. “If some intruder, some
religion, some politician, some disease doesn’t mess it up, then leave it to
the lovers. They will. We did.”
“It could be,” I said, “that love self-destructs. Maybe betrayal is the
very nature of love.”
“You cynical, atheist bastard! I haven’t betrayed Kick. Kick betrayed
me. I was raped more ways than one.”
“What’s that mean?”
“You think this TV-movie deal is a betrayal of our privacy? You sug-
gested revenge.”
“The guilty flee....”
“Armageddon is fiction. It’s not about us. It’s about people like us. It’s

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