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"What about Jesus?" she asks with her names. In- stead of answer, "Jesus is dead, but there are many Blessed Vir- gins." "For honey men maybe," she answered. He feels that she wished to cut into him and he took on the appearance of being quite serious. "If she were the white light, then but a few would be chasing her, and none would be kneeling before her; She is the cream of the crop for many, but she is not the whiteness that makes the brain contort dance through the heavens in crazy motion. People pray to Mary in a different way than one who has been thrown out of the body, like a chick- en with the head cut off." She sincerely laughs saying, "you must be a con- fused Catholic." "My uncle would certainly cut my head off, if he caught me talking like a candle-carrior." He looks away and tucks his humor up into his nose saying, "anyway, what would it be like if men didn't talk about virgins?" Her gaze is also away from him, and she replied lightly, "it would be calm." "Then back to the stars."