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My Son Went to Heaven, and All I Got Was a No. 1 Best Seller

At 3 years 10 months, Colton Burpo was a sunny child, a preacher’s son certain of his faith and his eternal fate. Then his appendix burst, and as doctors failed to figure out what was wrong with him,…
PUBLISHED: April 27, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (904 words)

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Civilisations going to pieces, Tom Buchanan, the Yale-educated millionaire, abruptly informs Nick Carraway in The Great Gatsby. Ive gotten to be a terrible pessimist about things. Have you read The…
LENGTH: 19 minutes (4933 words)

May 21: The Rapture Meets My 40th Birthday

My mother, a former preacher, would call it a warning. She may not have her own church anymore, but she still believes the Second Coming is nigh. She may, in fact, actually expect to be whisked off to heaven on my birthday. I’m not going to ask.
SOURCE:The Awl
PUBLISHED: May 19, 2011
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3406 words)
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