I recommended that she think of all the women who have most adored her in her life and to come up with a sense of God based on that kind of love, on the sense of protectedness that it gives you to be loved by a really fine woman, a sense of some mysterious regenerative force at the center of things that is maybe just love. She said with great surprise, “I didn’t know you could do that,” and I said, “Oh, yeah, you can do anything you want,” and by this morning she’d found a picture of a big cat licking a little cat. She’s a great cat lover, and it stuck. So at the hospital this morning, as she
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