So I'm talking to Danielle, one of my old God Squad (in Technicolor) pals from high school; it's been a few years since I talked to her. She's getting married this summer, something we all saw coming years ago. I might be attending two weddings, now.

Also, September is married, as I'd long suspected.

The "God Squad" appellation was Graham's invention, so I can't be sure about this, but I always assumed that Our Bold Hero, September, Danielle, and Martha were the main members. At this point I think only Martha, who always had a nunnery air about her, is still seriously religious.

You've heard more than enough about my beliefs, I'm sure. September and I were co-conspirators in doubt my senior year, swapping qualms over burgers and shakes. I still can't believe how often I ate out in high school. Perkins, Burger King, and the 371 diner, maybe. I seem to remember September liking KFC, though.

Danielle's case, on the other hand, seems to stem from a real conflict and not the slow erosion I experienced. Here's the idiocy:

Danielle works at a camp in a forgotten corner of the Brainerd Lakes Area known as Legionville. That's the farthest north Giovanni's Pizza will deliver. For a long time she was the only one of my old friends — after a few years of mockery, the finer classifications I use for friendship have become part of my secret language — still in town over the summer. We'd see each other every now and then.

So anyways, she met a guy at camp, years and years ago. And now they want to get married. True story. So the wedding is at the camp. Perfect.

Unfortunately, though they'll recognize as valid a wedding in a different religion's church with a different religion's priest/pastor, the powers-that-be at our local Catholic church told Danielle that she can't get married outside by the lake, even if the priest is Catholic.

Apparently Jesus needs a roof; it's some sort of carpenter thing.

Granted, I want the Church to be more inflexible. But this isn't exactly want I meant.

So now Danielle is church-shopping. Catholicism's loss.