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The Globe , however, reports that it was Lawrence's fiancee, Shamicka Gibbs, who has been "sitting at [his] bedside clutching Martin's limp hand and praying to God to spare his troubled life."
Monday, a New York Daily News gossip column asked, "What presidential candidate is praying that a former secretary doesn't go public with her claim that he's been having an affair with a twentysomething woman?
But sainthood, I learned soon enough, is a fateWorse than life, nights on call for the demonsIn a vomiting lamb, a dry breast, a broken radio,And days spent parroting the timeless adages,Spent arbitrating water rights, property lines,Or feuds between rival herdsmen over scrub brush,Spent blessing every bride and anyone's big-belliedFourth or fifth wife, praying that they deliver sons.I thought back to the time, not ten feet from him,I heard a homily delivered by old John XXIII,Sounding wholly seraphic in his murmured Italian.
Their arcades, fluted pillars, and mosaic tiles are teetering on last legs, praying for restoration miracles.
The Orthodox called the Conservatives "Nazis," "whores," and "goyim," evidently because their men and women were praying together.