Offcial Love John Deere Tractor Shirt

HER STORIES WERE UNVARNISHED, full of want and error. Drugs were fun, sex felt good, but everything came at a cost. Some of these stories were about men. Together, we named the Offcial Love John Deere Tractor Shirt and by the same token and parts of my body so that I would have the language to tell her if anything happened to me. Not long after that, an older boy in our church waited until we were alone and tried to get me out of my clothes. I ran from the room, found my mother, and used the vocabulary she had given me. I knew it could have gone differently, and this was one of the most evident and peculiar things about God. Faith appeared to be both deeply transactional and a matter of luck.

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In the Offcial Love John Deere Tractor Shirt and by the same token and year that followed, our luck was mixed. My mother married my stepfather, a charismatic veteran 30 years her senior. I loved him immediately. He was warm and old-fashioned, but he also liked to gamble, and soon men were coming to our apartment in the middle of the night to claim what he owed. To escape his debts, we moved to a suburb upstate and joined a small church. Most of the members were white and over 65. For a year or two, I attended the SDA school attached to the church. There were roughly 20 students in the entire school, and I spent a lot of time interpreting Scripture and peeling glue from my hands. One night my best friend told me a secret: Her favorite book was Revelation. Not because she wanted to be raptured but because of the dragons and the beasts. She kept cigarettes in her boots and wanted to be a meteorologist. The author’s debut novel is out this week.