The Collected Writings of Brian J. Mueller
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Or is it bellyaching?
Sometimes it takes a terrible stomach ache for me to wake up and realize it doesn’t matter very much if I manage to run errands, or even get anything done. At this point of my fast I was hoping for something else, maybe a lasting serenity or some meaningful revelation, but not with this churning gut. Sooner or later we all get a bellyache of our own making. About all we can do is wait until the time we may eat again.
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