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In that small town he doesn't tell his sin.
It's too terrible to telland doesn't deserve forgiveness.
He tells his little misdeeds and hides the secret of his world.
The eternal penance: three Our Fathers and three Hail Marys.
The priest doesn't say it, but it's as if he said, "Stick to little sins, son, and God be with you."
His big sin, compounded by the sin of not telling it, rears its head at night on tear-soaked avenues, a scorpion gnawing at his soul in that small town.
Tired of being enchained, one day at school he breaks loose and tells the awful truth in confession.
"But are you certain of having done what you think you did, or are you just dreaming? There are sins bigger than we are.
In vain we try to commit them. You're still young.
"Go in peace with your little sins. Say three Our Fathers and three Hail Marys. "