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June 07, 2006
Cancelled
I am a horrible person.
Yesterday I had an awkward conversation with an awkward ministry representative. We've reevaluated our budget, I said, and we need to start giving to some of our friends who are going overseas. We're sorry. No, we did not want to have a "grace period;" we would be giving monthly gifts to these other people.
"Oh, okay, so you're wanting to cancel the child?"
She said it sweetly. Uneasily. Awkwardly. But the words hung there. I was a child canceller.
Crap.
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i don't even know what a "child canceller" is. but it sounds pretty bad.
hopefully jim's work will make up for it.
Posted by: matthew gillikin at June 8, 2006 09:58 AM
So, as I understand it, you're having a child terminated so that some hooligan might vacation? I tease. I am glad you and Noel are on the ball when it comes to charity.
You should have seen the reproachful look on a Publix cashier's face when I did not give a dollar to the March of Dimes. "You know they help premature babies?" I slyly replied that I could never sympathize with someone who arrived too early for their own good. And that was that. We have had some deliciously uncomfortable encounters since.
Posted by: macey at June 9, 2006 07:08 PM
the dying children of ethiopia thank you. so do i
Posted by: jim at June 12, 2006 03:35 PM
