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First Mystery of My Father
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11 First mystery of my Father Yes, my father wanted to become a priest, then met my mother, the story goes. I say this because it is my nature to deceive you, to pull on colors experience deems poison, to keep you from tasting my skin. He left seminary for the army years before they met, which puts him in Germany transcribing cipher, tuning his ear to the radio traffic. It is here that I lose him, long before I am born. Think of Eve. She saw her father naked and felt ashamed. ...