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“My gift to him was an ivory heart with a cross carved in the center. Something in this object provoked a rare childhood tale from him, and he told me how he and the other altar boys would secretly rummage through the priests’ private closet, and drink the vestment wine. The wine didn’t interest him; It was the funny feeling in his stomach that excited him, the thrill of doing something forbidden.”