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I became an atheist the Junior year of my spring semester in college My friend from back home moved into our already crowded two-bedroom apartment That now housed four And five when Cathy would move in later that year He was unyielding and used logic Like a hammer or a martyr And would hurl question after question across the four-foot gap Between his mattress and mine It absolved me of any last remaining doubt There was a certainty that finally settled in That had been torn open during my freshman year Over a course in Cultural Anthropology I am comfortable knowing that this is it There is so much more beauty in a life that also has death