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Very good to be here again.

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I want to read from
a new manuscript

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that I'm working on
called Extra Room.

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And one of the
meanings of the title

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is to make a space for
unofficial categories

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to widen the circle of
ideas that you live with.

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This is called Many Mansions.

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In a free country, the
church of your choice

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may bear a name not on the
list of official churches,

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the name you bestow yourself
after trial and error.

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The church that
includes not only those

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with the courage of
their convictions,

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but those with the courage to
be unconvinced, disappointed,

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and lonely.

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A church that's
quick when it finds

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you despondent to
suggest your soul

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is a great bold beach with
a towering canopy offering

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ample shade on a sunny day
and a dry retreat on a rainy.

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A church that's
quick when it finds

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you smug to pronounce
you a crooked

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stick not even a long soak in
a pool of grace can straighten.

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Now the key word of your
church is yesterday,

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as in the sentence,
yesterday, I swore an oath

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I'm trying to keep
today despite what seems

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a sudden collapse of trust.

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Now its key word is
tomorrow as in today I

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like more than anything
to be elsewhere,

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but tomorrow, given some
luck, I want to stay.

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