Confession - Day 56

122 - Chicago

SEVERAL WEEKS AGO Time seemed not so much to slow as to go sideways for a moment, a whole series of things not happening so much as at once but rather in a timeless sort of mishmash.

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Confession - Day 55

121 - Chicago

SEVERAL WEEKS AGO In the end, we decided on a combination of the first two options, with the third acting as a sort of failsafe. Just in case.

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Confession - Day 54

118 - Baghdad

SEVERAL YEARS AGO The sounds of gunfire started just as we were getting into position. that wasn’t supposed to happen–we were supposed to be among the first in. Had we already lost the element of surprise? That didn’t bode well. Not at all.

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Confession - Day 53

116 - Rome

PRESENT DAY Between Michael, Father Antonio, and Amira, we didn’t have the slightest problem getting into Vatican City, despite the late hour. No one even seemed to notice us, although if that was the norm or some sort of supernatural intervention on Michael’s part I couldn’t have said.

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Confession - Day 52

113 - Rome

PRESENT DAY “What happened to you?” Direct seemed the way to go

He seemed to be having trouble catching his breath. “Big dog.”

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Confession - Day 51

112 - Chicago

SEVERAL WEEKS AGO I never would have expected to be going back to Mrs. Claire’s so soon. But I needed supplies. If I could believe what Sister Kat had said–and I had no particular reason to doubt her–then there were things that I wouldn’t have the first idea how to find.

But I knew someone who did.

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Confession - Day 50

110 - Chicago

SEVERAL WEEKS AGO I made call after call to my fellow priests around the diocese, yet I wasn’t having any luck narrowing down exactly what I was supposed to do about the situation. Really, there were two problems that were getting in my way.

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Confession - Day 49

108 - Baghdad

SEVERAL YEARS AGO I took a gun.

In hindsight–which is of course 20/20–that may not have been the best idea I’d ever had.

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Confession - Day 48

105 - Chicago

SEVERAL WEEKS AGO After that all together too depressing exit, I was more than ready to leave Mrs. Claire’s. Now I knew that she had been telling the truth–she was being haunted. So far as if Alex was actually having any effect on her business, I couldn’t say for sure, but that was a completely secondary motivation. And then there was Alex’s request. That was something to think about.

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Confession - Day 47

104 - Baghdad

SEVERAL YEARS AGO “There has to be more to it then that.” I could feel the pitch of my voice rising, but there was little I could do to control it. He just wasn’t willing to listen to reason and it was extremely frustrating.

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