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The Black Saint and the Best-Selling Writer

The Black Saint and the Best-Selling Writer essay Joe Miller hen I first saw the "ABSTINENCE = FREEDOM" sticker on Jackie Story's van, I wrote it down in my notebook, but I didn't ask her about it. I wrote down "Scooby van," too, and "light blue" and "rust." And when I got home that night I opened my laptop and wrote from memory that it cost Jackie $85 to fill the tank, and that she had to fill it often, and that she was having to turn down friends when they asked for rides home from church because she couldn't afford it anymore, and that that's not the kind of person she wants to be. Photo by Tatenda Nyamande I wrote this story: Jackie went to San Juan Motors, a used-car lot up the street from her church, to trade the van and sign a contract for a white Ford Escort station wagon. The guy who sold it to her went to her church. He said to her, "I'm going to put a brand-new radio in it just for you because you are so terrific." On the way home, she picked up one of her sons from church and another from school, and every time http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Missouri Review University of Missouri

The Black Saint and the Best-Selling Writer

Miller, Joe
The Missouri Review , Volume 36 (3) – Oct 17, 2013
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essay Joe Miller hen I first saw the "ABSTINENCE = FREEDOM" sticker on Jackie Story's van, I wrote it down in my notebook, but I didn't ask her about it. I wrote down "Scooby van," too, and "light blue" and "rust." And when I got home that night I opened my laptop and wrote from memory that it cost Jackie $85 to fill the tank, and that she had to fill it often, and that she was having to turn down friends when they asked for rides home from church because she couldn't afford it anymore, and that that's not the kind of person she wants to be. Photo by Tatenda Nyamande I wrote this story: Jackie went to San Juan Motors, a used-car lot up the street from her church, to trade the van and sign a contract for a white Ford Escort station wagon. The guy who sold it to her went to her church. He said to her, "I'm going to put a brand-new radio in it just for you because you are so terrific." On the way home, she picked up one of her sons from church and another from school, and every time

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