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  Now I have no one else to talk to except you. I’m talking to you because I can’t actually write my story down. I type like an eighth grader and my hand will cramp into a deformed E.T. shape if I try to write down everything that happened. Which is why after I left Home Depot I stopped by Wal-Mart to get a hand-held voice recorder. It’s like one of those old tape recorders that private detectives and news reporters used in seventies movies. You know, the type where the reporter would always click it and say, “Note to Self,” followed by some sort of witty or interesting or insightful comment. This is what I’ll use to tell my story, and maybe along the way I can explain myself to anyone who will listen, and especially to everyone I’ve hurt along the way. Pastor Martin told me that if I was going to tell this story I should begin at the beginning. Sounds kind of overly simplistic to me. But maybe it’s good, sound advice. I’ve never been much of one to listen to good, sound advice, but I suppose there’s a first time for everything.

  This is Jonah Adams’ story of how I used my demon and how he used me. Y

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