While We Were Walking Around, We Came To The Catholic Church, And We Saw That Some People Had Set Fire To Carpets And Banked Them Around The Rectory, Which Was Made Out Of Wood. They Knew Every Fire Truck On The South Side Was Going To Be In The Park, That The Rectory Would Just Burn To The Ground. Our One Little Act Was Putting Out That Fire.

-Sara Paretsky

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While We Were Walking Around, We Came

Sara Paretsky

While We Were Walking Around, We Came To The Catholic Church, And We Saw That Some People Had Set Fire To Carpets And Banked Them Around The Rectory, Which Was Made Out Of Wood. They Knew Every Fire Truck On The South Side Was Going To Be In The Park, That The Rectory Would Just Burn To The Ground. Our One Little Act Was Putting Out That Fire.

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Fire

People

Catholic

She Knew The Intensity Of Adolescence, And Knew No Cure For It Except Growing Up. And Then One Has Age And Experience, And Mourns The Loss Of Intensity. Maybe It's Why Musicians And Mathmaticians Are Said To Peak Young-poetry Needs The Fire Of An Unbounded Universe.

Growing Up

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Loss