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wasn't a puppy.

"She's sleep." Daddy said. He took his Bible from under his arm and brushed invisible dust from the cover and then returned it to its original position against his chest. My dad was the best daddy ever. He was smart, fun, and handsome.

Mama uncovered the thing under the blanket. "She looks so sweet and innocent" she whispered.

To me, she was just a dirty little girl who needed a bath. I wanted to know what she was doing in my house. Was I going to have to share my daddy and my mama with her, the thing my daddy brought in wrapped in a blanket? "Who is she mama?" I asked. She better not be staying here I added in my head. Please take her back to where she came from. I liked being the only child. When mama was home and she was being nice, I got all of her love.

"It's a baby girl God gave to us when we were driving down the road." Mama answered. Mama was beautiful. She looked just like the Virgin Mary. She had big innocent eyes and a small mouth that was always too weak to smile.

"Is that where I came from, too?" I asked.

Mama and daddy looked at each other. "Oh no" Mama answered. "Where you came from is much more special." She lay her had against the Bible clenched to daddy's chest. "Our souls," she continued "came together one night and made your soul. Your soul was small and round at first and too weak to live on its own so my soul fed your soul until it grew and was ready to live on its own." Mama's mouth formed her version of a smile and she looked a t the girl daddy had brought in from the car. "That" she said, "was on the side of the road and God put it there for us to take"

"you said she came from God." I said.

"yes. Like a piece of fruit or a puppy came from God." Mama smiled.

"Did I come from God?" I asked. I wanted to be more special than the girl. I knew I probably was because she was dirty and mama called her an it. I wanted to hear them say I was more special than that thing daddy brought in the house. I just wanted to hear it.

Mama looked at daddy and thought for a minute.

"When Man fell, God left him." Daddy started. "God, the One that once lived within us, left us alone to grow without Him. He shut heaven away from our eyes so that we can't see it anymore. He took heaven away from Earth and now the Earth has grown alone. Heaven and Earth are no longer together and neither is God and man. No, God did not make you or us. We came from the Earth"

"But, " I said. "I thought God was good and He made me and everything and..."

Daddy's expression didn't

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