"So you mean I'm some saint that already was," asked Dahlia, "like St. Francis?"

   "Yeah."

      "Well, which one am I?"

         "You tell me."

            "I don't know!"

"Well, tell me a little about yourself."

 "I was born in a trailer park in Poughkeepsie."

  "No, Dahlia. Tell me about your other self."

   "Um ... I was tied to something. Spikes in my back. It exploded."

    "Is that how you died?"

    "No. I wasn't hurt."

    Now Johnny's eyes were getting wide. "Was it curved?"

   She just looked at him.

  "What you were tied to?" he continued.

 "Yeah. I was arched back."

"Oh my God."

"What?"

"You're St. Catherine."

"Who?"

"St. Catherine. Of Alexandria."

"Who's that?"

"You know."

"No I don't. I don't know anything."

"You know everything."

"No I don't."

"You just don't know that you know."


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