“Must have been in ’88 or ’89. Otis was still alive. His parents had a little bungalow just down the road a piece. Every Sunday they would try and get us to go to church with them, and finally Otis convinced me to give in. That was a mistake. You ever been to one of those hooting-and-hollering services over there, Sheriff? It’s like watching End Times, the Musical. Then they bring out them damn snakes. I told Otis that was my first and last time attending a service at Holy fucking Rock. That Sunday just happened to be the same day Elias and Mare-Beth tried to pass off that boy as their own,”
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