Sunday, November 06, 2005

The Cross and His Mother

Croxley “the Cross” Hammond was not an ugly man. “You’re a beautiful boy,” his mother told him seasonally. His mother had been told by her obstetrician, “there are no ugly children walking on God’s earth, only ugly souls.” Hammons mother pretended to put the Cross in his crib without questioning always whether there were any of God’s children walking His earth with souls as ugly as her baby.

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