“I thought we were in a church basement, but we are literally in the heart of Jesus. “We are literally in the heart of Jesus,” he said. ” Isaac turned and ran up the stairs, taking them two at a time.Īugustus Waters turned to me. “Counterinsurgence tomorrow?” Augustus asked. “I’m gonna try to get me some eye cancer just so I can make this guy’s acquaintance.

I feel so fortunate that an intellectual giant like yourself would deign to operate on me. And he said, ‘It doesn’t work that way,’ and I was, like, ‘Yeah, I realize it doesn’t work that way I’m just saying I’d rather be deaf than blind if I had the choice, which I realize I don’t have,’ and he said, ‘Well, the good news is that you won’t be deaf,’ and I was like, ‘Thank you for explaining that my eye cancer isn’t going to make me deaf. “Okay, so I went into clinic this morning, and I was telling my surgeon that I’d rather be deaf than blind.

Isaac leaned a hand against the snack table and focused his huge eye on me. ” He clasped Isaac by both shoulders and then took a half step away from him. “She’s a regular?” I couldn’t hear Isaac’s comment, but Augustus responded, “I’ll say. ”Īugustus leaned in so he thought I couldn’t hear. “That was actually worse than you made it out to be. “Hold on,” Augustus said, raising a finger, and turned to Isaac. ” He was just about to say something else when Isaac walked up. He towered over me, but he kept his distance so I wouldn’t have to crane my neck to look him in the eye. Augustus Waters pushed himself out of his chair and walked over to me. When Patrick was finished, we said this stupid mantra together-LIVING OUR BEST LIFE TODAY-and it was over.

And while Patrick droned on, reading the list from a sheet of paper because it was too long to memorize, I kept my eyes closed, trying to think prayerfully but mostly imagining the day when my name would find its way onto that list, all the way at the end when everyone had stopped listening.

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