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			<title>Chapter 3:  Breaking Camp</title>
			<description>Whatelse did you see in Newt Reno's imagination?&amp;rdquo; Newt Rahn asked AlecTron after they had slept on it that night, &amp;ldquo;Do you remember?&amp;rdquo;&amp;ldquo;Itisn't just his imagination, you know?&amp;rdquo; Alec said.&amp;ldquo;Didyou see the all powerful one, the creator of reality?&amp;rdquo; N..</description>
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			<title>Chapter 2:  The Death of Newt Reno</title>
			<description>I use a story about the imagination of two boys in a warning to remember what you imagine as the truth should remain thought of as imaginary.  Believing imaginary things are real is dangerous at best.</description>
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			<title>Chapter 1:  I Know I Am</title>
			<description>AsYet UntitledByJohn F CarverCopyright2015 John F CarverChapter1:  I Know that I AmI knowI am.  Before there was a place to be in I was.  And when there is nolonger a place to be in I will yet be.  Even if no one else is in theend, I will..</description>
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			<title>As Yet Untitled</title>
			<description>Another metaphor that is as close to true this time as I can manage without the Creator were to write it.  I am a Christian but I hope to display my beliefs herein in a way any Christian might.</description>
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			<title>Their Conclusion</title>
			<description>Whenyou were not I was there.  Before all the universes were formed I wasthere.  Before your universe was, I was there.  Before your galaxy wasI was there.  Before your star system was I was there.  Before youplanet was, I was there.  Before any human being was I was there. Before your mos..</description>
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			<title>Epilogue</title>
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			<title>The Trilogy</title>
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			<title>Sojourn By John F Carver</title>
			<description>The trilogy is done.  Now for the rewrites.  There is so much truth; so much of me in here I hope you don't mind if I leave it on here for a while even though it is rather long for this site.  93,824 </description>
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			<title>Chapter 5:  The Death of a Character</title>
			<description>&amp;ldquo;Oh, that you would make me a mindless human,&amp;rdquo; Frank suddenlycried out to his writer, &amp;ldquo;Someone interested enough in sports toignore it is all about big money.  Someone disinterested in thetruth, in reality, in Jesus Christ, in God!  A mindless idiot whorisks house and fam..</description>
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			<title>Chapter 4:  The Highest Bidders</title>
			<description>&amp;ldquo;Wheream I now?&amp;rdquo; Frank asked Them.You areon a laptop in a word processing program, being prepared forpublication on WritersCafe.com a Web site where your entire life hastaken shape.&amp;ldquo;Butevery crook and creep on the entire earth is on here,&amp;rdquo; Frank said,&amp;ldquo;..</description>
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			<title>Chapter 3:  Light Spirit Love</title>
			<description>Have Ilied thus far?  Can you conceive of something I have not been taughtabout fiction or learned by experience and trial and error?  I can'twait to know what it is if you can!  I mean something that is not somuch Jabberwocky type stuff I can't understand it of course.What ofthe light..</description>
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			<title>Chapter 2:  Character Limitations</title>
			<description>Everygood fiction shares something about some one, some thing or someplace.Ialready have Frank Li and the readers have already assumed he is thesame character from the first two books of the trilogy.  But what issome one called Frank Li?  In the first book he was a man, in thesecond ..</description>
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			<title>Chapter 1:  Fiction</title>
			<description>Onceupon a time where there was no time there was no man named Frank Li. And Frank Li was not real anywhere else but real there.  However henever was in a coma and he never came out of one.  He never had amother or a father and no family was around to disapprove or approveof him.  He did..</description>
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			<title>In Fiction</title>
			<description>The third book of the Sojourn trilogy.</description>
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			<title>Chapter 18:  The Global Psychopaths</title>
			<description>&amp;ldquo;It'stime, Frank Li,&amp;rdquo; I said sadly, &amp;ldquo;It's time to go in, now.&amp;rdquo;&amp;ldquo;Idon't want to go in there,&amp;rdquo; he said, &amp;ldquo;I don't ever want anyone tobe like I am again.&amp;rdquo;&amp;ldquo;Evenyourself, Frank!&amp;rdquo; I said in my shock.&amp;ldquo;Idon't deserve to live,&amp;rd..</description>
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			<title>Chapter 17:  Raising Hell to Earth</title>
			<description>&amp;ldquo;Thenthe hippies and yippies came out of the pit claiming they were intopeace, love and change.  The liars called sex love, peace gettinghigh and change a sticking field of feces in New York State.  Theynever changed anything except it was a lot easier to be ashamed ofyourself for th..</description>
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			<title>Chapter 16:  Oppressors a Plenty in the USA</title>
			<description>&amp;ldquo;Americais a dream of the rich,&amp;rdquo; Frank Li said, &amp;ldquo;I memorized theConstitution of the United States of America in Sixth grade because Iwanted to know what the rules were.  What a joke!  Even when I waseleven the year beforethey shot Kennedy nobody cared about it anymore.  T..</description>
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			<title>Chapter 15:  Ugly America</title>
			<description>Me andFrank Li stood by his body in the hospital room at Sanford Hospitalin Bemidji and he could see what he looked like jut lying there buthe also saw what I looked like too finally.&amp;ldquo;Whois that?&amp;rdquo; Frank's spirit said, &amp;ldquo;He looks like death itself!&amp;rdquo;&amp;ldquo;In away ..</description>
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			<title>Chapter 14:  Now</title>
			<description>&amp;ldquo;Theones the apostates think of as apostates are no different. Catholics, Jehovah&amp;rsquo;s Witnesses, Mormons and any other cult of offthe wall 'Christian-cultists' that may exist are no better and noworse than the Apostate churches like Baptists, Bible churches,Methodist, Presbyter..</description>
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			<title>Chapter 13:  Psychics and Other Pretenders</title>
			<description>&amp;ldquo;LittleKevin lived out in the woods east of town when he turned up missing,&amp;rdquo;Frank Li said, &amp;ldquo;So they asked psychics to join the search.  Thepsychics said a lot of things in my hearing that their demons toldthem.  Why didn't anybody ever find them?&amp;rdquo;&amp;ldquo;Whatthey c..</description>
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			<title>Chapter 12:  Unanswered Prayers</title>
			<description>FrankLi was remembering when he was a child his brothers built a swing andentertained him by allowing him to jump out of it at everincreasingly higher increments.  An old tamarack and a long pine poleplaced side by side on the deep green of the lawn tied together tosupport one long rope ..</description>
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			<title>Chapter 11:  Unhealthy Opinions</title>
			<description>&amp;ldquo;Ifnone of them ever talked to Them and never really knew Them,&amp;rdquo; Franksaid, &amp;ldquo;It really was like being an alien here!  I knew I was rightall along!&amp;rdquo;&amp;ldquo;Fromthe age of four, frankly,&amp;rdquo; I said to my husband, &amp;ldquo;He didn'tbelong here.  That wasn't just a fe..</description>
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			<title>Chapter 10:  Their Grand Slam</title>
			<description>&amp;ldquo;Wewant to show you something, Frank,&amp;rdquo; I said as my husband stoodbeside me next to Frank Li's hospital bed, &amp;ldquo;You brain has to healand it will take some time.  Are you ready to have some fun?&amp;rdquo;Helooked at me and his spirit smiled.So weput him in a field, laid hi..</description>
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			<title>Chapter 9:  Pulling the Plug</title>
			<description>&amp;ldquo;Doyou want to go back?&amp;rdquo; I asked Frank.I couldsee he was in a great angst the likes of what Jesus of Nazareth musthave gone through in the Garden of Gethsemane when he actually sweatdrops of his blood on the earth.&amp;ldquo;Youlove Them, Frank Li,&amp;rdquo; my wife his latest Ins..</description>
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			<title>Chapter 8:  The Proposal</title>
			<description>&amp;ldquo;Whatare the dead interested in?&amp;rdquo; Frank Li asked her.&amp;ldquo;Mostlythey are preoccupied by their basic needs like food and shelter andprocreation,&amp;rdquo; she said in a voice thick with sadness, &amp;ldquo;It seemsto takeover their entire lives.  They spend most of their life, doing..</description>
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			<title>Chapter 7:  The Dead and the Pretenders</title>
			<description>&amp;ldquo;Bevery careful with the delusional,&amp;rdquo; she said, &amp;ldquo;They are likechildren who don't remember what they are told and merely want toenjoy being children.  Do not hate any child especially one of Theirchildren.  Are they not just children like you were once.  Otherwisethey wi..</description>
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			<title>Chapter 6:  Decide to Love</title>
			<description>&amp;ldquo;It'salmost time, Frank Li,&amp;rdquo; I said.&amp;ldquo;Timefor what?&amp;rdquo; he asked.&amp;ldquo;Doyou want to meet others?&amp;rdquo; I asked.&amp;ldquo;Othersin a coma?&amp;rdquo; Frank asked.&amp;ldquo;No,&amp;rdquo;I said guardedly, &amp;ldquo;Others like me.&amp;rdquo;Isensed his amazement and knew he had..</description>
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			<title>Chapter 5:  Do Not Just Delete</title>
			<description>&amp;ldquo;Wow!&amp;rdquo;Frank Li said, &amp;ldquo;What was that?&amp;rdquo;&amp;ldquo;Yourwriter needed some rest so he deleted some of his book which is wherewe live,&amp;rdquo; I said, &amp;ldquo;He was trying to commit suicide by taking onAllah again.  He got too wrapped up in the third dimension again. He's..</description>
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			<title>Chapter 4:  Progressing Backward</title>
			<description>FrankLi began walking around in Jacky's yard trying to know what grassfelt like, I guess.  But I don't know that.  He is just a characterin a novel by Jacky when he grew up to be John F Carver the author ofSojourn.  Therein Frank was the main character who incidentally was awhole lot like ..</description>
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			<title>Chapter 3:  Little Heathen</title>
			<description>I justmonitored Frank Li's spiritual mind after that for a while, but itseemed to be sleeping almost all the time.  They didn't seeminterested in inspiring him to do anything and he became so bored hedidn't know what to do, but slip back to the first and seconddimensions in his mind afte..</description>
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			<title>Chapter 2:  Empty Mind</title>
			<description>I knewhe was scanning his now three dimensional mind, but I kept silent tosharpen his mental acuity.'I knowyou are still here,' he said, 'Where are you?''Wheredo you want me to be?' I asked and when he didn't answer I said,'Think of a spot before you in any direction you choose and a..</description>
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			<title>Chapter 1:  Coming Out</title>
			<description>&amp;ldquo;He'sdead?&amp;rdquo; Anda Li screamed into Frank Li's cellphone that laid on thetable in his bedroom in his apartment at Northland Apartments acrossfrom the Human Services Building in downtown Bemidji, Minnesota, USA.911showed up on the display of the phone in the dark where the verti..</description>
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			<title>Coma</title>
			<description>First book in Sojourn trilogy that takes place when Frank Li the only sane person left on earth was in the coma.  It will be the second book in the trilogy I am planning, but it's not finished yet.</description>
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			<title>Chapter 37:  Reality Returns</title>
			<description>&amp;ldquo;Wheredid you go, Frank Li?&amp;rdquo; the Inspiring One asked, but there was noreply, &amp;ldquo;Your writer wants to write more, Frank.  But I don't seeyou anywhere anymore?  What happened?  Frank?  Frank Li!  I miss you! Frankly, I do.  Will I always miss you?  Someone, anyone, nobody,p..</description>
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			<title>Chapter 36:  Living the Nightmares of Others</title>
			<description>Youbelieve in Jesus Christ and have passed the test which is proof youare no enemy of God and stand against Jesus of Nazareth who loved himlike no other man ever loved anyone.  You liars.  You never evenheard of him.  Your prayers have been answered in your imaginationonly.  You write bo..</description>
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			<title>Chapter 35:  Frank Li where They Are</title>
			<description>Then Iwas in the Light.  But my writer wasn't even there yet.  He wassitting in the group home in the dining room with his laptop sittingon the table and I could see him sitting there writing these verywords onto his little computer.&amp;ldquo;I amnot a person that I should be here at all,&amp;r..</description>
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			<title>Chapter 34:  The Unloved and the Unlovable</title>
			<description>&amp;ldquo;Issomething wrong, Frank?&amp;rdquo; the Inspiring One asked, &amp;ldquo;You don't seemto be happy today?&amp;rdquo;&amp;ldquo;Howcan I be happy,&amp;rdquo; I said, &amp;ldquo;She was my mother, wasn't she?&amp;rdquo;&amp;ldquo;Yes,Frank,&amp;rdquo; the Inspiring One said, &amp;ldquo;You didn't share it with her int..</description>
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			<title>Chapter 33:  Humans at their Best</title>
			<description>Youwere not humans but you acted like them, merely animals with a bodyand brain that houses the wiring that They gave you when you weremembers of the line of Man a major inconvenience that requires nearconstant redirection and nearly continuous distractions if you are toignore your purpose..</description>
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			<title>Chapter 32:  Get to Know Them</title>
			<description>&amp;ldquo;Butin a way you prayed publicly for them,&amp;rdquo; the Inspiring One said, &amp;ldquo;Isthat wise.&amp;rdquo;&amp;ldquo;Whetherin private or in public one must pray when one is so moved at thetime they want it most genuinely for surely not to do that grants theNemesis an opportunity to distra..</description>
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			<title>Chapter 31:  Bucket Theory</title>
			<description>&amp;ldquo;Theyare only human,&amp;rdquo; the Inspiring One said, &amp;ldquo;Why were you so hard onthem?&amp;rdquo;&amp;ldquo;Noone else I know cares enough about them to tell them the truth,&amp;rdquo; Isaid.He wassilent.&amp;ldquo;Thereis no hatred greater than to leave the insane alone in their insanity..</description>
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			<title>Chapter 30:  Insane According to the World</title>
			<description>I say,&amp;ldquo;Do not ask for a sign.  Is not everything you say and think not asign?  You do not need a sign, signs are all around you telling whichway to go.  Why not learn to read the signs?  Does a pointed woodensign that reads Jerusalem mean you are in Jerusalem?  Why not followthe di..</description>
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			<title>Chapter 29:  When the Jews Become Sane</title>
			<description>&amp;ldquo;Whenthey see the Light coming they will know that They are real and theywill look upon one of their own changed in a moment's time knowingreality and Them, all three of Them, the One whose name they dare notsay, the Light, and be sane in Their Spirit forever.  Some will belike babie..</description>
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			<title>Chapter 28:  Spiritual Past</title>
			<description>Thevery next day my social worker, Marilyn called to say she had anopening for me in a group home out in the country close to my mom'shome and we made an appointment to go look at it.  I had no idea Iwould move in that very day if I wanted it.  And I did want it.  Itwas exactly what I wa..</description>
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			<title>Chapter 27:  The Religiously Insane Apostates</title>
			<description>When Iwent in to see what my mom was up to after interacting with theInspiring One back in my bedroom I found her sitting at the table, soI sat down with her hoping to have a talk with her, knowing she wasdead if I didn't somehow help her see They were real and wanted tohelp her the same..</description>
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			<title>Chapter 26:  Limited for Safety</title>
			<description>AJapanese rock band on TV caught my attention.  I couldn't catch aword of what they were saying and I watched with interest for theyseemed to sound like most any rock band I had ever heard  Even theaudience was thrilled just like it had been an English speaking band. Then they interviewe..</description>
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			<title>Chapter 25:  Aliens Living on Earth</title>
			<description>I wassitting on the couch in the living room and my mom was on herrecliner, but TV bores me, for I am not enough like a human to beentertained by the mad ramblings of writers who are way to human-likefor me at best.  All they write about is death and dying, sex andperversion other than e..</description>
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			<title>Chapter 24:  The Curse of Man</title>
			<description>&amp;ldquo;Afterthey had all died except nine of the family of Man though one of themwas so much a part of Them while he was even on earth They took himbefore his body had even died to be with Them.  So it wasn't a totalloss.  The Nemesis didn't get them all,&amp;rdquo; the Inspiring One said.&amp;l..</description>
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			<title>Chapter 23:  The Useless Broken Mirror</title>
			<description>&amp;ldquo;Therewas once one who They slighted because of his religion.  He tried toplease them with unimportant things while his brother gave upsomething dear to him, something he loved that injured his soul togive it up and They were touched by that and pleased with his giftmuch more than ..</description>
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			<title>Chapter 22:  No Help for Foolish Children</title>
			<description>A lyingspirit filled my mother's mouth and took over her soul for though shewas in torment she prophesied only lies and her fiction is with us tothis day, for she believes that a woman's place is to serve herhusband, a thing she has never done well bringing death and thingstoo painful fo..</description>
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			<title>Chapter 21:  Man and Woman and Mere Humans</title>
			<description>&amp;ldquo;Therewas one of us who was among the animals.  And They took him away to asafe place that he need not go back to being an animal, tormented forall his life hungering for his own kind being tempted at all times tobelieve the object lesson rather than the truth that was intended forhi..</description>
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