Agnes of God
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I wasn't. I wasn't.
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The pretty one died. Why not me?
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I never said my morning prayers.
And I was ugly. I had freckles.

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Sister Mary Cleatis
called me "Polka Dot" Livingston.

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-So you left because you had freckles?
-No, because l--

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Yeah.
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Yeah, I left the Church
because I had freckles.

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As a child I could hear
my guardian angel.

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She sang to me
until I was 6 years old.

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That's when I stopped listening.
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But I remember the voice.
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A few years ago,
I was a nun certain of nothing.

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Not even of heaven.
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Not even of God.
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And then one evening, I saw Agnes
standing by her window, singing.

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And all my doubts about myself and God
were gone, in that one moment.

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I recognized the voice.
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Please don't take it away from me
again, Dr. Livingston.

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Those years after 6 were very bleak.
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My sister died in a convent.
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And it's her voice I hear.
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Does my smoking bother you?
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No, it reminds me.

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