Grace leads me to the guest bedroom, Jack’s home for the past month. The hospice workers are still there, quietly putting away the materials that have collected over the past four weeks. They move quietly out of the room, sensing the need I have to be here alone with these two friends. Jack looks at peace, simply sleeping, and I fight back tears.

I tell Grace what God told me, that I knew before she even said it. I tell her I understand what she meant about no longer listening, but believing. I tell her their lives, their story, have made me question the things I’ve always believed. I’m not sure yet I agree with them, but I want to learn more.

Grace puts an arm around my shoulder. “You know,” she says, “there’s a group of people who meet at Zoe and Todd’s on Monday nights … ”

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WORLDS COLLIDE
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Strobel, Alison.
    Worlds collide / Alison Strobel.—1st ed.
              p. cm.
    1. Motion picture actors and actresses—Fiction. 2. Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.)—Fiction. 3. Biography as a literary form—Fiction. 4. Married people—Fiction. 5. Biographers—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3619.T754W67 2005

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2004023545

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