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in those caves; it’s not something you simply forget after a few days. I’m never going to forget him or what happened to us.”
    Sune looked like I had offended him. “You’ll never forget him? What does that mean? Did anything happen between you two down there? Why were you hugging him when we came down to rescue you?”
    “What?” I grabbed William and got him out of his chair. He stumbled across the room.
    “You two were standing awfully close when I entered that cave. In each other’s arms even. I could tell something was going on between the two of you. I just knew it. I could tell by the way you looked at him. Don’t you think I know you?” Sune was almost spitting when he spoke. I had never seen him like this.
    “What do you mean?” I asked.
    “How can you not know what I mean?? I walked in there, ready to rescue you, and then I found you…I find you in the arms of this…this…guy.”
    “Oh, my goodness. This has bothered you ever since, hasn’t it? I can’t even remember it.”
    “You don’t remember that you were in his arms when I found you? You expect me to believe that?” Sune said.
    I shook my head. “I…I really don’t remember. I was starved and dehydrated. There’s a lot from down there I don’t remember.”
    Sune gritted his teeth.
    “You don’t believe me, do you?” I asked.
    He shook his head. “No. I don’t. There you have it. I can’t stand the fact that you don’t talk about what happened down there with…with him. Why won’t you tell me about it?”
    “Mostly because I only remember bits and pieces, but also because I really, really want to forget. I want to move on with my life. My life with you,” I said, feeling tears pile up.
    Sune bit his lip and shook his head. Julie and Tobias had started fighting again in the living room.
    “I don’t believe you. I think you want to remember. You wanted to when David stepped in the door, didn’t you? You wanted to talk about old times and know everything ,” he said, making a mocking voice.
    Julie started screaming again. I wiped my hands on a towel. “You know what? Believe what you want. I don’t have time for this,” I said, and walked into yet another war zone.
     

7
    P ASTOR K LARA K EMP was sitting in her office in the vicarage that belonged to Karrebaeksminde Church. She was working on her sermon for next Sunday, and thought with joy about last Sunday’s speech. She had talked about gays and how homosexuality didn’t belong in the church and how it was an abomination, according to the Bible. She had long watched where the country was going on this, and now that the church accepted those kinds of people getting married within the church walls, she knew it was time for her to speak up.
    Pastor Kemp was old and knew she didn’t have many years left before she had to resign. And she was determined to fight for the truth till the end. They’d have to carry her out of her church. She wasn’t going to let anyone of that kind get married in her church. And she would let her congregation know how she felt about it. There was no doubt in her mind that she would never approve this.
    When the head bishop had told her the church was ready to change its views on homosexuals and let them get married, she hadn’t believed her own ears. She knew it was being debated. She knew there were forces of evil out there trying to change things, but she had never thought they would succeed.
    “Never,” she had replied when he told her this applied to her as well, that if a couple came to her and wanted her blessing and to be married in her church, she would have to do it.
    “It says very clearly in Leviticus,” she had continued. “ You shall not lie with a male as one lies with a female. It is an abomination .”
    The Head Bishop had told her that this was the way it was going to be, no matter what she said. There was no way out of it. She had an obligation to do as she was told.
    “Never,” she now whispered into the