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me what it is. I suppose it's religion, but I never can quite get to what it is. It's something that he's got that eludes me. I don't feel the liberty to press for it. I don't feel that I have any right to pry any further, but there's something that he's got.”

I said, “Why, Harry, it's clear that he's got a relationship to God. That's what you're trying to say and he know it.”

“I think that's it,” he said, “but, by gosh, I can't find out what it is nor how he gets this relationship to God, if that's what it is.”

I said, “He's got a perfect trust in God, hasn't he?”

“Yeah,” that's it,” Harry said, “he has. But why? It seems unreasonable at times, but he falls back on something that gives him complete assurance that everything is going to be all right that I can't even grasp, that he isn't able to share with me, nor to explain to me. I'm just left feeling that it's a ridiculous position he's taken. Why should he be sure that it will be all right? It's something that eludes me. He doesn't make himself clear. He doesn't try to and he shuts off any attempt to push.





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