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Her voice was as high pitched and breathy as the peppier teenage girls Caitlin had taught. Unlike those girls, whose sentences collided like cars at a demolition derby, Jackie spoke as if weighing the impact of every word on the listener.
“Ambition is a disease,” Jackie said, lighting the Salem and blowing a stream of smoke at the ceiling. “And political ambition is the malignant form of it.”
“I appreciate that, honey, but I gotta get back upstairs. Sandy Koufax is pitching tonight, and the Jews are betting like he’s Moses with a fastball.”
The hypocrisy of the ministers was galling. God-fearing men who hated other God-fearing men.
