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...women who were pregnant when they lost their husbands on Sept. 11.) "You almost feel like you have to do something, but you're not sure," he says. The indeterminacy is frustrating and painful for him, but not--at least outwardly--for Genelle. "I think sometimes: 'Why did I wait on Rosa?'" she says. "I guess the whole thing happened for a reason. It was just their time to go. God calls, and you have to answer. Some of them weren't prepared for him, and that gets to me. I know Rosa, I know she wasn't ready...
...production of true believers, not good citizens. Because people initially welcome the imposed piety but then gradually realize it doesn't equip them to meet the challenges of getting through life, life becomes a morbid burden. To shake off this burden, some of them, usually young men, can't wait for natural death and decide instead to take a short cut to heaven...
...terminal has become a vast theater of the absurd where aspiring passengers line up halfway back to town. The shoes of little old ladies are gravely removed and inspected. Men in suits take their cell phones out of the bag and put their laptop computers into the bag--no, wait, cell phones in and computers out. Random passengers stand spread-eagled while strangers say to them softly, "Now I'm going to run my hands around your waist. Is that all right?" Somewhere unseen, a food-service worker is assembling meals headed for first class with cheap plastic knives...
...copulate in the pool. In the lean winter months, the family rents rooms to hookers and their clients. Lin's unnamed narrator mans the front desk at night and cleans the mattresses, giving him plenty of impetus to do what 12-year-old boys do: wonder, fantasize and wait impatiently for his own turn...
Hunt said that during the controversy he told critics to wait to hear the speech, which he assured them was not offensive...