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The co yourselves, on't keep you ot here was all Zora could think!

He went on, "Here's so place around the church and just to let you knoe'll be having a guest speaker today, but don't worry I'h to beat the Baptist's to the restaurants first!"

People laughed

They actually laughed!

Was this what church had becoe by then apparently so

The church news bulletins flashed by as they were projected onto the wall above the stage area

Zora actually heard one man comment to his buddy that he'd like to just stay at church and watch the ga the football game at home on his smaller screen

The news bulletins were over and there was a lull that stretched out a little longer than was usual and people started looking at each other half s and half alarraht into the next until it was over and it was tiot even hs sounded out here and there and then Elon stood up The silence becaht everyone to attention

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I walked up the steps to the stage sourly noting that this church didn't even have an altar for people to co Several men I took to be Security stood up here and there in the crowd, but looked unsure of what to do

I faced the crowd of affronted people, as I stood to the side of the pulpit I reached up and pulled e floor Then I let the tattered coat slip off to join the heap along with the torn pants I wore, until gradually I revealed the suit that I wore beneath the get up I had been disguised in

Pulling a rag from my pocket I started to wipe off the facial makeup I wore even as I cleanedon top of the pile beside e The place was quiet and already ehout the room without the use of a microphone as I pointed at the pile beside me, "What does this pile consist of?"