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My noon liftoff

Everyday around noon I get to transform into Doug McClure’s character from the film Satan’s Triangle. At the very end of the movie, an obscure made-for-television feature from the mid-’70s, he’s pushed out of a helicopter by a possessed priest while flying over the ocean. We see his lifeless body floating, face down, but after the priest decides to take control of him, his head jerks up, eyes open wide, maniacally scanning the waterline for more evil things to do or people to occupy. And that’s where I come in.

Whether this power comes from someplace evil or someplace else matters little to me, because now I can accomplish anything. And no matter what I happen to be doing when that lift takes hold, I feel my head jerk up and my eyes pull open wide. The effect this priest has on me, going from TV screen to my body, I’ll bet, is really something to see.

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