Her Name in the Sky
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Read between January 29 - February 1, 2023
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The anxious resistance of young adults, of people caught between the crayon drawings of Sunday school and the cognitive dissonance of grown-up theology.
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the St. Mary’s fans make so much raucous noise that it drives the Mount Sinai fans out of the stadium like demons out of a possessed person.
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Hannah looks through the windshield and begs the sky that her life will always be like this—large and loud and brimming with youth, but always followed by the quiet drive home and the promise of ending the night with her favorite person in the world.
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But while the whole earth prepares for spring, Hannah feels a great anxiety in her heart, for something dangerous has grown in her, something she never planted or even wanted to plant. It’s there. She knows it’s there. If she’s truthful with herself, she’s probably known all along. But now, as the days grow longer and the Garden District grows greener, she can actually see it. It has sprung up at last, and it refuses to be unseen. She tells herself it’s passing. It’s temporary. It’s intensified only because she’s a senior and all of her emotions are heightened. It’s innocent. It’s typical for ...more
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“You look like you’re hurting.” “I am,” Baker says. “But not from the fall.” “You shouldn’t have done that.” “I should have done it ages ago.”
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Hannah stands naked in front of her bathroom mirror and looks at herself—really looks at herself—for the first time in months. Her ash blonde hair, with the split ends tickling halfway down her back. She’ll have to get a haircut before Emory. Her blue-gray eyes, always narrowed in thought, curtained by brittle eyelashes. Her small, thin lips on a mouth that eats and drinks and speaks and prays. There is so much more for her to taste in this life. The skin on her body. Skin that has withheld and has given, skin that has absorbed alcohol thrown in violence and tears wept in redemption. Cold ...more
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“I’m going to wait,” she says. “I’m going to wait until she’s ready.” “What if she’s never ready?” Hannah guides the car onto their driveway. She thinks about how she has waited for Baker all week, how she’s thought about Baker’s broken rib and the cuts on her hairline and the bruises on her skin. How she’s kept her phone in her hand like a talisman. How she’s looked out the window with the sound of every car that’s driven by. “I’ll just keep waiting,” she says.
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“I love you so much.” And Hannah knows it’s true, because she sees the proof in Baker’s eyes: they are vulnerable, and full of wonder, and begging Hannah to love her in return. And something happens in Hannah’s heart: something spreads throughout it, warm and unstoppable and steady like the sun.