“Your wife find the Book,” said Jesus Lover Seventy-something. “Read, read, read, read before you. Learn the Pechnique of JeSuS. Then your wife come for you and Say, I have found the Book of SPrange New ThingS. Read now, you. We Shall noP periSh, buP have ePernal life.” Summarized like that, it sounded more like the serpent’s overtures to Eve in the Garden of Eden than Bea’s matter-of-fact allusions to Christianity in the hospital ward where she first met him. But it was interesting that the Oasan went to such strenuous effort to quote from John 3:16 verbatim. Kurtzberg must have taught them
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