The Dovekeepers

by Alice Hoffman

“Should I judge myself?” she ventured to ask. “Or should I leave that to the Almighty, who forgives us all for being what He made us?”

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now I understood that, although words were

God’s first creation, silence was closer to His divine spirit, and that prayers given in silence were infinitely greater than the thousands of words men might offer up to heaven. I listened

I wrote your name and mine intertwined, as our fate intertwined at the moment of your birth. I cannot imagine whom I could ever love more in this world we walk through.

I understood that women had secrets, and that some of these were only to be told to daughters. In this way we were bound together for eternity. In the garden, where