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"You bet I do," Mr. Byrne said.

"I'll tell you what I bet," Vicki said. "I bet you'll be drinking and cussing and fighting and losing your job
again."

Her father's smile froze. She knew she had made him mad, and she could tell he wanted to hit her. She
had spoken what she believed was the truth, but she hadn't really wanted to hurt him.

He approached and reached for her, and she flinched. "Don't you touch me!" she screamed.
 He took her gently by the shoulders and spoke softly. "I'm not going to hit you, Vicki," he said. "Let me
hug you." She couldn't remember how long it had been since he had done that. "I know this all has to
sound strange to you, but something hap-pened to me tonight. It was as if God spoke to me. I don't
know why I listened or how he got through, but he did. And things are going to change around here."

That'll be the day, Vickithought.

"I know you have no reason to believe me, hon," her dad said. "I don't blame you for not understanding.
I've never given you any rea-son to trust me, so I guess I'll just have to prove it."

"Let's let God work on her," her mom said. "We have enough work to do on ourselves, and he's going
to help us with that too."

Vicki finally pulled away from her dad. "Well, I'm glad if this works for you two," she said, "but don't
expect me to be part of it. It sounds weird. You hear a crazy preacher for five minutes and now all of a
sudden you're holy?"

"We're not holy," her mother said. "We're just giving ourselves to God."

"And you don't think that sounds strange?"

"When God gets through to you," her dad said, "you won't think it sounds so strange."

Vicki finally made it to the little bedroom she shared with Jeanni and flopped into bed. She was scared
about what was happening with her parents. She decided that if this really kept her dad from drinking and
fight-ing and being a lazy worker, it would be all right. But this much of a change in such a short time was
too much to handle.

Jeanni stirred. "Is that you, Vick?"

"It's me."

"Did you hear what happened tonight?"

"I heard. Go back to sleep."

"Then you know I'm a Christian now?"

"You too?"