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Then he loosened his collar and asked what time the game started.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNine o'clock. Bring cash.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe brought his car keys.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo here I am. Two cars, one nun, one problem. I can only drive one at a time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNext Thursday the cardinal is coming.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI hear he drives a Ferrari.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePhotographed, not generated. 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Somebody talked. Probably Sister Margaret. She talks in her sleep, and she sleeps in church.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI hid behind the bales with the last jar. Held it like a newborn.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe searched the barn. He searched the chapel. He searched the confessional and came out looking pale.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen he found me.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe looked at the jar. I looked at his badge.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Sister,\" he said. \"Is that what I think it is?\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Sheriff,\" I said. \"That depends on what you think it costs.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe's my best customer now.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe also drives the delivery truck.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePhotographed, not generated. 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The bishop told the newspaper.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy Tuesday there were buses.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo dollars to see the bale. Five to touch it. Twenty to watch me have the vision. Hand to my head, eyes on the road, a little sway. Fifty, and I'd faint.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThree hundred pilgrims a day. Candles, rosaries, tiny bottles of holy hay.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFather Albert took ten percent. The bishop took twenty. The Virgin never asked for a cent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe bishop asked what she said to me.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI said she said, keep going.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe only real sign out there was the stop sign at the end of the road.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI never paid it much attention.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePhotographed, not generated. 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Bad reasons cost extra.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI do the Latin myself. I do the bishop's signature better than the bishop. I've had more practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMrs. Delgado wanted out of thirty years with a man who snored. Forty dollars.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMr. Delgado came the next Friday. He wanted out of thirty years with a woman who never stopped talking. Sixty.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey still live together. Neither one knows the other is free.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI wrote the reasons I accept on the barn wall. The list got long. Then it got specific.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe bishop nailed a board over it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat Friday he came back with a marriage certificate of his own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI didn't know bishops could be married.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNeither did Rome.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePhotographed, not generated. Salton Sea, 1 May 2016.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe board was added for the website. 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Right next to my rosary.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNot my bottle. Not my cigarettes. My rosary, though.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRebecca Miller found them first.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe stood over them, hands folded, eyes down, like she was praying for my soul.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe was pricing it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Sister,\" she said. \"I didn't see anything. For fifty dollars, I'll keep not seeing anything.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI paid. Then I paid again in June. And in August.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat girl has no electricity, no telephone and no car.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe has a savings account, a lawyer, and my rosary.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery Christmas she sends me a card.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt says: Still not seeing anything.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePhotographed, not generated. 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