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Here's The Thing With A Crucifix Ring · Vinnie Penn Poemcast

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  He pointed at my crucifix pinky ring, and with kindness in his eyes,
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  said, here's the thing. He doesn't want you to remember him that way.
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  What an odd thing for a new alphabetized friend to say. That ring
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  got stolen some years later, right out of my childhood bedroom, a midday
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  break in the kind of thing that lives to consume someone was here in our
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  home. They also stole a ring my mom had gotten me in Florence.
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  Neighborhood hooligans, the embodiment of abhorrence. I often think about that crucifix pinky
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  ring that moment in class, and here's the thing. I remember him that
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  way as clearly as the cop asking me if I could hazard a price.
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  There isn't one when it comes to sacrifice.