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John Pruitt recently devoted his life to preaching the love of a God he cannot be sure has ever loved him. Millie Gunning can only pray that she found love of her own in the man whom she married.
When the two meet on Crockett Island in 1959, they each realize that they have a lot to learn.
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John and Mildred steal a few dear moments in the church sacristy after the Good Friday mass.
Set in Episode 5: Book V: Gospel.
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When little Sarah Gunning scrapes her knee at Sunday school, Father John Pruitt finally gets to be his daughter's dad - if only for a moment.
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“Yes, George had been her best friend. But John Pruitt was always the man whom Mildred recalled with romantic love, passion, with the agonizing yearning that came with having a soulmate it was forbidden to touch. George had viewed her nude body, as had John, but it was only John who had seen straight into her naked soul in ways that George had never been privy to.
Though only Mildred Gunning had ever seen John’s beautiful unclothed body. His own soul stripped bare, fervent and frangible before her.”
Alternatively: What if Mildred and John had more time to reflect on their lives together before the events of the Easter vigil?
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Her husband murdered. Her son kidnapped. Nora was thrust into a world she didn't recognise, and forced to survive on the land she didn't know; all while hunting down the man who stole her son from her. Confronted by the harsh reality of the new Commonwealth, Nora is forced to contemplate everything she ever learnt. As her morals end ethics are put to the test, Nora builds a new supports system around her, comprised of the rowdiest group of ragtag's she could muster. With her newfound family at her back, could Nora muster the courage to survive the journey of finding her son? Could she handle the ghost of her dead husband haunting her dreams, as she battles with the inner turmoil of falling again in the wasteland?
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15 May 2024
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“God will forgive our trespasses. We are only human, after all. Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us.”
It was a familiar line, but you could not place it. “That is definitely not a Bible verse.”
“In other words, the only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.”
A lightbulb flashed in your mind. “You’re taking moral guidance from Oscar Wilde, of all people?”
“He suggested we should seek out everything morality forces us to renounce in order to observe what we think and feel about it.”
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16 Feb 2022
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In truth, as the days went by, Mildred thought of her husband less and less and of Father Pruitt more and more. It wasn’t that she didn’t love George, she was just becoming increasingly aware that maybe she didn’t love him in the right way - not the way she was beginning to fall in love with John.
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14 Jan 2022
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09 Jan 2022
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Adjusting to new sensations and hunger is hard enough as it is. Luckily, Millie Gunning has an old friend who doesn't take much convincing. In fact, if she didn't know any better, she'd think them a bit too eager.
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04 Jan 2022