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ACCOUNT OF M ACCIDENT Strains of a familiar irielody drifted aimlessly throurh the humid, stagnant air.Parching rays of sunlight penetrated the wearily moving vehicle and scorched its exhausted driver. The monotonous singsong rhythm cf heated rubber turning unrelentlessly over soft pavement lulled the brain into ndld hypnosis* Damp clothing clung limply to the heated body. Perspiration beads trickled indolently down the slender, youn.^ face and formed moist circlets of blond hair on the shapely neck. Eyelids grew drowsy in the *la3iquid heat as fatique seeped into every crevice .of muscle. Sweaty fingers relaxed their grip on the slick wheel. The young woman was only vaguely con scious of her circumstance as she drove continously through the long afternoon. She was tired, thristy, and hot. Little else mattered than to reach a motel be fore dusk. She rounded a sharp curve and was vaguely aware of the rapidly approaching truck. The truck swerved abruptly and seeirei to tottei- uncertainingly on two whee Is. Then suddenly it happenedit There was a wild, tremenous sensation of motion, then a loud crash, and finally a deathly silence. Her stomach was nau seated and her head throbbed in agoniz ing pain. Memories drifted, .whirled, and settled flatly,stalely into a morbid pit of confusion. She couldn’t move; she couldn’t think; her body was reduced to a spastic mass of tormented nerve. Every muscle twitched,quivered, then lay linp and inanimate. Her once smooth skin was gashed and ripped until the lovoly- featured face was but a distorted bundle cf flesh. Blood oozed freely, uncon st rainedly over the tawny skin and bathed the body in gruesome red. She was beyond all help save cne. They bore her away to the greatest phy sician an under his care she was restored to beauty and health. Her skin vTas grafted and was molded into love liness even excelling its former grace. Her nunt) linibs were revived to strength and the lueniories which haunted her were erased. She emiLrr^ed once more a beauti ful woman vrith a life full of promise. There were two newspapers which re ported this horrible accident. The head lines of the first read: "Young Woman Killed Instantly in Collision". The second reported: "YOUNG WOMAN WELCOMED INTO KINGDOM". The first paper didn’t tell the full story; the second gave a mere accurate account and a complete follow-up cf her recovery. - by Dotty Lilly Ua A I Si, J L ON CONFORMITY V.:. i - by Reger Sanders "Heavenly Father, give us serenity to accept what cannot be changed, courage tc change what should be changed and wisdom to know one from the other," Greatly admired is the man who stands up for what he believes in. Any mari.. whc fcllcws the group and never expresses his own opinions and beliefs is a weak ling. An individual is, indeed, a person tc be envied, I have often witnessed good people being swayed by agents cf the Devil.• It is enough to make one hate all humanity,because we are all conform ists. Nowhere on the eai-'th is there a true individual, I believe that there is a burning desire in everyone to be different, but we all are afraid. What is there t^ be afraid of if this desire is mutual? The answer, of course, is nothing. We are a world of cowards. We don’t have a mind of our own. It is controlled by the fear cf nothing, which is also mutual. T}ie desire is the positive, the fear is the negative. Com^ bined, these powerful forces are nothinf. We are all made of desire and fear therefore, we are nothing. If the quotation,"Cowards die many times before their deaths; the vaJiant never taste of death but once," is true; we all die a little each and every time we conform.
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