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One thing was that one day changed my life forever.
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It was like any other day.
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Nice clear sky, warm, and a little breeze.
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I was taking a break and laid down behind some bushes.
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Just off the interstate.
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I could hear the cars and trucks going by when a car pulled over and stopped on the other side of where I was laying down.
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Fantastic.
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I sarcastically said to myself, a cop.
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Well, I guess I'll have a place to stay tonight.
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Jail.
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Suddenly I hear a voice.
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I know you're over there.
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Why don't you come on out?
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Definitely I'm busted.
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Okay, but please don't shoot.
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I get up with hands held high.
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Look over towards the voice.
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You're you're not a cop, I said with a cracking, nervous voice.
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No, I'm not, son.
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Come on and get in.
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At this point I wish the guy was a cop.
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I'm now with a serial killer or kidnapper or a pervert.
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I grab my small pack, walk on over and get in.
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I buckled up and look over at the driver.
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Hmm.
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Let's see, he's wearing all black.
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Hey, hey, he's Johnny Cash.
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Wait.
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He's got that white thing, you know, like right in the middle of his neck.
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Oh Lord my driver is a priest I froze.
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I swore he said So, how ya been?
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How have I been?
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I don't know the sky.
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I think I said Okay I didn't know it, but everything was about to change.
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He starts talking about my life the things I've done the good and the bad.
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How does he know these things?
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Something is going on, but I don't know what.
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I can't feel my body.
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I'm still frozen.
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I can't move.
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The priest keeps telling me things that no one knows except me.
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He gives me serious advice.
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He says it's advice that will carry me through the good and the bad days.
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It would keep me focused on what I know to be the right thing.
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Even though in the days to come, I would sometimes veer off that path.
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But I would inevitably find my way back.
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Time went by fast.
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He reminds me of things that I had done and of things that happened to me.
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I stopped looking at him while he talked.
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Now I have found myself looking out the car window, thinking and wondering about everything he's saying.
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I'm in some kind of fog.
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I hear him telling me where I'll be one day, what I'll be doing, and I'll be successful.
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But not Wall Street kind of successful.
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It will be my own kind of success.
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What and when?
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I eagerly ask.
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His reply is simple.
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He looks over towards me and says with a confident yet soft voice You'll know.
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Wow.
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We start slowing down and then pull off to an exit.
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He says it's his path to home.
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As I'm getting out of the car, I'm still numb.
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I have never had this kind of an experience.
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When I turn to grab my pack, the car, my pack, and the priest have vanished.
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I look down the exit.
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Everything is gone.
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Except my pack.
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Which is now in my hand.
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But how?
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Exhausted.
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I fall to my knees.
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My head is now in my folded hands.
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Did I just wake from a dream?
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That can't be.
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It was too real.
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Something happened to me that day.
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You know, and even now.
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I'm trying to understand what that could be.
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This is the first and only time I've told anyone about that day.
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Maybe if I told the world, I would finally understand.
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One thing is true.
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As each day goes by, little by little, I'm starting to see things a little bit clearer.
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And as I look back on that day, one thing is for sure.
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That day with that priest changed my life forever.