Titus turned and slammed the ax into the chopping block. “I used to believe in God’s plan. I believed he would heal Mama. Even though he’d never spoken to me. He’d never answered any of my prayers, but I still believed he’d heal her. Stop her muscles from turning to bone. Touch her with his heavenly hand and take away her pain. Stop her from howling all night. But he didn’t,” Titus said. “She died at forty years old and the world just moved on. So, when you tell me it was God’s plan for them boys and girls to end up under that weeping willow tree, I have to ask myself, which one of us is the
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