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What Debbie did

» An excerpt from the novel ‘Darkness’

   
 

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Cazzy Lewchuk

i : Staff Writer

he first 33 years were pretty

normal.

The next 56 were the
most brutal experiences I can
imagine.

If there is a Hell and I
am destined there, I can only
imagine that I am already
descending into its depths. If
there is a Heaven—and every
day I still imagine there is,

He has put me through.
Deborah Hunter, née Ridge.
That is my name. Or it was, to
the eyes of the public. I have
all kinds of names these days,
but my friends still know me as
Debbie or Deb. I grew up in the
dirty ‘30s when we were all poor.
Married a sweet young boy from

he was whisked away to fight
for our country. We rejoiced
when he came back unharmed,
we settled down, we had two
beautiful children and a bun in
the oven. Was ita sin, that I did
what my friends did and stayed

at home to raise my young ones? : :
: and we had many more nights

: like that one. We were married
: afterwards, and it was never a sin
: again.

God put me on this planet to do
something more. If there was
one good thing about that night,
it’s that I realized my life was

designed to do more things than!
serene) GO mone maul en : he send them that night, years

: later? And if God truly does care,
: then why has he never seen fit

: to judge me about everything

: I’ve done in the decades since?

: Perhaps He is just waiting to

: judge when I somehow escape

: this life... this miserable world...

: and I can truly suffer in the

: afterlife for what I’ve done.

many others’.

I just wish those things
werent so awful.

I have never been proud.
Never. Maybe on the surface,
I was proud that my husband
loved me and that I maintained
our house and children okay.
But I was never the exceptional
girl in school or at my call
centre jobs. I have never made a

: beautiful work of art or recorded
: a hit song. Everything that I have
: done in all my years of existence
: was done for my family and to

: survive. The satisfaction isn't

: there.

I cry, every day. Most of

: the time they don’t notice.

: Sometimes they laugh, but

: mostly they leave me alone. It’s
: kind of them, I suppose. I pray
: and I wash and do what I can to
: get rid of the sins—oh, so many
: sins!—that plague me daily, but
: nothing helps.

What caused Him to

somehow—the Lord will have to condemn me to this life? Was

explain His reasons behind what : it the penny candy I took from

: ashop when I wasa girl? I had

: stomach pains for a week. I

: could barely move and I bawled
: and told my mother everything.
: She whacked me and forced me
: toapologize to Mr. McGill who
: owned the shop. Was that not

: my penance?

Perhaps it was the far more

. . : serious sin I committed the
high school. Cried for days when : night before my boyfriend left
: for Europe. We knew it was

: wrong, but I might never have

: seen him again, and it felt so

: beautiful! We were alone and in
: my bed and oh, I felt better than

: [had ever felt! The passion!

But of course he came back

Why did God care? Why did

I do deserve it now.

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