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“The rich shall inherit the earth,” the serpent told them in the time between, “and the poor pay their toll.”
United States
21st Century
I arrive in this world fully aware of the past. Not that I could tell that to my single mother, even though she has spent her adult life chasing religions: Buddhism when I was six, a hard right turn into Catholicism when I was ten and finally, a backwards leap to Wicca when I turned fourteen. Still practices witchcraft, I suspect, because whenever I visit, she’s dressed in flowing caftans with candles burning on some type of stone altar.
No, I never told her I have recollections of past lives. That is going too far out there for the “genius” son (her words) who is going to be a famous writer someday. So, I keep my nose to the proverbial school and
