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- ‘I‘hirtieth .

z The first week in February.

Are you sure? (nodding) yup. ‘

o.K., right.“ So that's—“November, December...

- . . .about nine weeks?

About that,’yeah.

: Not that long.

No, it'll be here quick enough. . , .

- A lot ospgqpie shonld-heAable to ccme. It's not a bad time

Should be ablei'to,‘ yeah. for tests or anything.

: Well, do you think many will?

(shrugs) - ' .

.: 'Ihat many, huh?

Approximate ly .

- I don't see any reason why a lot of kids

couldn't come.

(confidentially, looking around, and then leaning toward her and whispering

They don't trust us!

- What do you mean?

They think that if they come on an ACI‘ weekend they'll be bible-belted to death.

: Oh, come on! (laughing)

(emphatically) It's true! Ever since I went on that last ACI‘ weekend, and said that I liked it, my friends act as if I've lost a story upstairs. ‘

: I didn't know your friends were that

perceptive . Funny .

: Thank you.

'Ihey're always asking me for things like directions to heaven, or good luck blessings on Pig nights.

: (laughs) Do you think many of them‘will come

to ACT eight?

I dunno. I tell them: "Boys, believe me, if you come you'll be glad." And they know I mean it. I wouldn't tell them they should go to ACI‘ if it'was no good — I wouldn't take chance.

' Right.

Sometimes _they get close to saying they'll come, but I don't think they're quite con—

vinced that a drunkless weekend isn‘t somehw ‘

sxbversive .

: It is rather radical.

(earnestly) It may sound crazy, but it

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really i_s_ radical. Weekends are for wandering dcwn inebriation road, looking for female inebriates.

Haven't you been dcwn that road a time or

'three?

Sure I have. But the best part of getting drunk is before you do it. It's the antici- pation of it. Ch Sunday morning, even if you don't have a hangover, you don't feel so excited anymore. '

What do you feel like?

Hey...are you trying to tell me you've never been drunk? ’ ‘ .

Yup.

Really?

Never.

Well, on Sunday morning you dm‘t feel much at all. At least I don't - I mean didn't - I'd just feel. . .disappointed. . .bored. . .I didn't feel like doing much else except watching T.V. , or sleeping.

I know what you're getting at.

(nodding his head, looking at her, smiling)

. . .but after an ACI‘ weekend. . .

I knew it.

I felt better than I did before I went.

There was no disappointment. And I‘wasn't bored - I was pretty damn excited. About life, and people, and even me.

You know why you felt like that, don't you? Yes, I do.

People enjoy giving with other peOple. 'Jhey enjoy the warmth of it. They, me anyway, not only enjoy that kinda warmth, we need it. That's it. If we can't get people to believe that God is relative to them, at least we don't have to waste time trying to convince them that love is. And God i_s love. (smiling) 'Ihat's right.

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