Sunday, July 25, 2004

Today's Word: Habit

 
The older missionaries in the village had that habit of speaking about their spouses in the third person Amish even if the person in question was standing right there.

Doc would say, "Sister Jenkins and I worked in Guatemala for ten years before this assignment."  Then he would take her weathered hand in his own -- a wholly unconscious action I think -- and smile, waiting for one of us to ask the question that meant he had leave to tell another story. 

It was a good two years; hard and happy.


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