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angels are they for real?

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Angels! Are They For Real?Are you an angel, I asked a nurse, in crisp uniform, waking up tied to a bed after suffering    delirium tremens. She smiled this irritating smirk nuns wear when visiting the dying, this annoying, cloying smile worn by earthly angels who stay by my bedside, but refuse to come near enough for me to touch their virginal knockers or inhale the fragrance of their glowing skin.Hope you are not my dear, real angels are sexless and clean, butabsence of sin makes them boring.Do you know, perhaps you do, but I’ll tell you anyway: if Jesus hadn’t in temper, chased money lenders out of the temple and if he hadn’t doubted God when he, on the cross,whispered. “Father, why did you forsake me?” He would have beenquite forgotten now, or made guestappearances as a glossy, but minorcherub, in children’s books. Written December 2nd, 2001 © on Dec 01 2001 05:37 PM PST   0 • 10

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"Angels! Are They For Real?Are you an angel, I asked a nurse, in crisp uniform, waking up tied to a bed after suffering    delirium tremens. She smiled this irritating smirk nuns wear when visiting the dying, this annoying, cloying smile worn by earthly angels who stay by my bedside, but refuse to come near enough for me to touch their virginal knockers or inhale the fragrance of their glowing skin.Hope you are not my dear, real angels are sexless and clean, butabsence of sin makes them boring.Do you know, perhaps you do, but I’ll tell you anyway: if Jesus hadn’t in temper, chased money lenders out of the temple and if he hadn’t doubted God when he, on the cross,whispered. “Father, why did you forsake me?” He would have beenquite forgotten now, or made guestappearances as a glossy, but minorcherub, in children’s books...."

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