Resurrection and Other Rigid Dogmas

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I am sitting under a needy dog and a needy cat who have both somehow divined—maybe because I drug out the suitcases?—that I am about to go away. They keep staring at me balefully, and every time I go out of the room, Gloria, the cat settles herself on my carefully arranged pile of clothes to take, rather than the discarded items that will not suit me at…