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"I was just about to ask you that very same question", says Jesus. "But while you are here, let me please explain you to you, and to the others sitting here. And before you get caught up in your bloodlust and voyeurism, all of you, each and every one of you while we are all together here is also going to have their turn at having your inner selves exposed here to the light of day, and more, to the very interpenetrating divine light of which I, the son of man and God, happen to be." he is smiling right now, and the light in his moss green eyes is almost unbearable to look at. We all stare at him in dumbfounded silence. I think that now, even to my dear case manager, it is now perfectly obvious whose presence we happen to be sitting in right now. "Now, beginning with you, Lawrence, when you were just thirteen, you were all ready to pack it all in. You decided that your father's pentecostalism was all hogwash, speaking n tongues was an embarrassment you dared not mention to anyone, especially not to your peers in school, and you were already inventing one excuse after another for not attending church on Sundays...