Sublime

God, I pray first of all for the brothers and sisters in this jail, that you might strengthen them. I pray for the people who come to the Downtown Chapel to get something to eat and for the staff that provides for them; I pray for all the poor; I pray in thanksgiving for all the people who help me here and for Father Gary, who comes to see me. Plea

Perhaps he is a fool and a coward but almost everybody is one or the other and most people are both.

Later, at the mortuary, the director told Strong that though she was paying for the funeral, she had no right to make decisions, “a family member must do it.” Fleming’s death certificate stated she was unmarried.3 Charlene Strong, who hadn’t been a gay rights activist before, became one.

Even more painful than the fact that my let us call it interrogation was carried out by the French, the nation I love best.’ ‘What civilised man does not? Their rulers, politicians, revolutions set apart, and this horrible engouement for Bonaparte.’