The Statue
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The Statue

You never know where a sincere amends will take you

I lived in a nice neighborhood. My drinking warped my perception of what is appropriate. I had a life-sized statue of a nude that I kept in the full-length picture window in the front living room of my house. My wife had left me and took the kids so I was living alone. I would try dancing with the statue, whom I called Wanda, until two hundred pounds of plaster rolled over my toe. I was not a good dancer. 

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