Tommy Defendi and Lance Hart (FMF P1)

Yes, it's me. I'm sorry, I know I'm only supposed to confess my sins, but you are the priest

I looked up to the most, so I just couldn't resist saying hello.

Nonsense. I'm glad to hear your voice again. We miss you around here.

Yeah, there are a lot of things I miss about the church, too. But I couldn't go through

it with being a priest, feeling the way I did. I thought leaving would help me figure

everything out, but I guess not.

What brings you here today? What's troubling you?

It's the lifestyle I've been living since I left the church. I've been feeling very

guilty about it. I thought maybe confession would help.

Go on.

When I was studying to be a priest, I met this guy, a parishioner here. We used to talk

sometimes, after Mass. He was interested in why I wanted to become a priest. He said

he'd been thinking about doing it for a long time, but he was afraid. There was this weird,

like, I don't know, connection between us, I guess. I was always happy to see him, but

he made me kind of uncomfortable. It wasn't anything he did, it was just my own strange

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