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I knew that the Name was still with him, animating his soul, even as his body failed.
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I do think he hated him as one man will hate another who draws off the affection of a beloved.
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The common soldiers did not blame him for his excessive grief. They knew him. They knew his flaws. Indeed, I think they loved him all the more because he was flawed, as they were, and did not hide his passionate, blemished nature.
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David would wear no purple cloth, no symbols of his kingship, when he went to greet the ark. In its presence, we were all of us servants.
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I am not a hero. Life has not required it of me.
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The stories that grow up around a king are strong vines with a fierce grip.
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This morning, light lapped the water as if God had spilt a goblet of molten gold upon a ground of darkest velvet.
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As that ripe summer turned to autumn, the sunlight cooled to a slantwise gleam, bronzing the beach grass and setting the beetle-bung trees afire.
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Raz was one of those vanguard human beings of indeterminate ethnicity, the magnificent mutts that I hope we are all destined to become given another millennium of intermixing. His skin was a rich pecan color from his dad, who was part African American and part native Hawaiian. His hair, straight and glossy black, and the almond shape of his eyes came from his Japanese grandmother. But their color was the cool blue he'd inherited from his mum, a Swedish windsurfing champion.
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