She begins, What is the question we spend our entire lives asking? and answers, Our question is this: Are we loved? I dont mean by one another. She closes her sermon to the snakes with these words: I am like you, curious and small. Like you, I pause alertly and open my senses to try to read the air, the clouds, the suns slant, the little movements of the animals, all in the hope I will learn the secret of whether I am loved.
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