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conversation. “Troy, listen. I’m tired of playing around. I’m twenty-eight, almost twenty-nine years old. I want a family—well, maybe a dog instead of kids—a house . . . all that stuff one day. But I can’t have that with someone who is fooling around. So just tell me, are you seeing anybody else?”
    â€œBaby, I’m into you right now.” He kissed her neck.
    â€œI mean, period, not just at this moment,” she insisted, making one last effort to push forward her conversational agenda. She tried to shove his kiss away, but she didn’t try too hard. “I’m not going out with anybody but you. And I need to know you’re doing the same for me.”
    â€œWhy are we even having this conversation?”
    â€œTroy, I need someone who is going to be faithful to me,” Danielle said. “I need someone who is going to do right. I need someone who will go to church with me.”
    â€œChurch?” Troy said. “Is that what this is about? Half the time, you don’t go to church yourself, and now you want to drag me up in there? C’mon, now. You know I don’t get down like that.”
    â€œWell, I might not go to church every time the doors open—”
    â€œEvery time the doors open? You barely make it once a month.”
    â€œThat’s not true!” Danielle snapped, though she knew his words did have some truth to them. “Anyhow, this isn’t about me. It’s about you. I want a man who at least is making an attempt to live right.”
    â€œWell, when you start living right, then maybe I will,” Troy said. “It just kills me that all the women I date want to start trying to change a man. And yet they aren’t doing what they should do. How many times have you cussed me out? How many times have you done crazy stuff that I know is not in the Bible? So, why are you trying to hold me to a different standard?”
    â€œI am not trying to hold you to a different standard!”
    â€œOh, really? Well, why is it that it’s okay for you to lie—you lied to your boss earlier today, telling her you had a life and death emergency and had to be rushed to the hospital—but you get on me for lying? And why is it that it’s okay for you to disrespect me, but you want to kick me to the curb for saying a few words to you? I’m just trying to see what makes you so special that you can live any way you want, but you want me to get a makeover.”
    â€œYou are twisting everything all around,” Danielle said. “I am saved, but maybe I’m not delivered from every single thing. I am human. If I make a few mistakes, so what? At least I believe in Jesus.”
    â€œWell, isn’t being saved about a little bit more than that?”
    â€œWell, that’s the main thing,” Danielle retorted. “I don’t have to be a holy roller.”
    â€œSeems a bit hypocritical to me.”
    â€œOh, well, you wouldn’t understand,” Danielle said. “Non-believers always want to hold believers up to an impossible standard. And it’s not that simple. I don’t have to be perfect. I just have to believe in Jesus and try to do all right.”
    â€œWell, how can you press me to do right when the best you can do is try ?” Troy asked. “That’s why I’m not down with all that stuff. I just live my life the way I want and that’ll be all right.”
    â€œBut, Troy, we can be really good together,” Danielle pleaded. “You can join my church. We can get married. We can be happy.”
    â€œBaby, you knew what I was when you got with me,” he snapped. “Now stop all this mess. I’m the same thing now as I was then.”
    â€œSo what are you saying?”
    â€œI’m saying that you are looking really good.” He stood up and stepped out of his pants. He let the boxers slide to the floor and kicked them away. He disrobed,