“Yes,” she said, “I guess it is. But it’s brutal. What’s happening to me is brutal. And there’s more ahead. I want out and I can’t get out. Nobody asked me originally. Nobody is asking me now. Yah foresees what lies ahead but I don’t, except that there’s more cruelty and pain and throwing up. Serving God seems to mean throwing up and shooting yourself with a needle every day. I am a diseased rat in a kind of cage. That’s what he’s made me into. I have no faith and no hope and he has no love, only power. God is a symptom of power, nothing else. The hell with it. I give up. I don’t care. I’ll do
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