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Few crosses were heavier to bear than that of bad neighbours.
‘Votta ‘a petrella e annasconne ‘a manella.’ Throw the stone and then hide the hand.
His understanding was that this world was much like any other cult: people talked to fellow believers in the language of belief, and dogma changed to follow the market. Both were about faith in winning entrance to Paradise, either final or fiscal.
They hadn’t lived long enough to understand what grace it was to die in an instant and not to linger.
