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When I Did Something Bad, and Then Did Something Even Badder

When I was about 4 years old, I was playing with a neighborhood friend.  While running in her house, we came upon a little shrine of her grandmother, lit with candles, attended with warm tea. My friend immediately looked at me and said, I don't know about you, but when I was a kid, and I heard the words, "Don't touch that!", the FIRST thing I wanted to do was TOUCH IT. I was incredible. I knocked over the grandmother's tea. I know childhood memories can often be clouded by trauma, but prior to the tea spilling, I visualize my friend as this spunky, fun-loving Vietnamese girl. Immediately after the tea spill, I remember her turning into some creature out of a horror movie. She said four words I will never forget.  I tossed and turned many a nights after this, wondering anxiously if I was going to go to hell. It made me question the fairness of the universe. I mean, if the grandmother was so aggro about me spilling her tea, shouldn'