A fifteen year old boy is a pallbearer at the first funeral he ever attends. It is a Catholic funeral and this Protestant raised teenager finds the rituals strange and foreign. Something goes terribly wrong as he is helping to carry the casket to the grave. The skin of his hand gets caught in the hinge used to raise the carrying bar. He is in terrible pain and can only end the aching by stopping the whole procession. He decides to bear the pain as a sacrifice to the young girl inside the casket.
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