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and he wanted to savor of it every moment. He could see the potential for his own earth, but it would take much time and billions of people to bring this spacial globe into alignment with such beauty. But it did not seem impossible. The faith within him had converted Adam the mortal, into Adam the angel. Perhaps untold time awaits earth’s reaching the perfect state, but what is time to the Eternal One? Only the state of near- perfection will bring man face to face with the greatest and final question, “Why?” with some promise of at last knowing the answer. Adam had to say goodbye. I watched him drive off toward town, a mile and a half to the south. The realization that he was leaving for good shocked me into wanting to call him back. Suddenly I had so much more to say to him, or rather to ask of him. There was an emptiness within me that had no bounds as I - to orae 1 wet pew oat watched his car go on down the road, climb the hill, then disappear forever down the other side. He had never told me where his cabin was and it would have done little good if he had, because Adam’s car was ready for its journey to Seattle. I knew I would never see him again. Even so, I felt alive with a story that not only filled me with a new kind of awareness, but was big enough to be told to the four corners of the world. My life had somehow been doubled in scope. I kept looking at the top of the hill over which Adam’s car had just faded from view, and I could only think to myself these words: So long, Adam! Happiness to you, Dora! Yes, Dora, happiness to you! Adam and you will find the dawn of happiness at a milestone where so many others find an end to theirs. 210 SON OF THE SUN It became 9:00 o’clock far sooner than it normally should have, for I was unconscious to the passing of time. I saw a thread of truth in the fabric of existence, a thread