As good as I’ve seen in any church. He don’t preach down, not like at Holy Pentecostal. The pastor there, name of de León, Eldin de León ... tha... man had no quit in him. You going to hell, you don’t do 100% what he says.”We were both bent over, happily slurping.José shook his head, “Meant well, most of them do. But Eldin, man, he wear you down. His religion was hard-boiled and deep-fried. Most preachers tell us that Adam and Eve sinned. Eldin put all the blame on Eve. So women had to be. Heck, even the old hospital can be redone into apartments and other useful space. Did you see anything you were interested in?”Puss looked over at Rat then turned to Jack and said, “Well Gimp, I saw a couple I liked ok but I’m still not sure this is the thing for me.”Rat said, “Oh come on Puss. What the hell else you got going on? It’s nice here and no one’s fucking with us. We can go to this trade school and get our school check and live easy for a while. The Army owes us that much after ‘Nam.. Ploetzlich erscheinen unterseiner Schrift Buchstaben einer anderen Handschrift auf dem vergilbtenPapier. Wort an Wort reiht sich aneinander. Aufmerksam liest Wesselmit. Ab und zu grinst er. "Ja, ja, die Sarah", gibt er einmal von sich.Dann fragt er die drei, wann sie zu Hause erwartet wuerden. Dannschreibt er ihr die Antwort auf das Blatt: in drei Tagen. Bei der Antwortscheint die Kuerze der Dauer nicht ganz zu befriedigen. Er teilt den dreienmit, dass Sarah mit Doris und Helene, ihren. We’ll need to celebrate Liam’s victory.”“You’ve heard? Has he won?”“Dear Meredith, you don’t understand how this works. Everyone wins.”“Yes, ma’am.” Meredith did not understand. This was a layer of royalty she had not been exposed to.“Now, let’s have the party on the Saturday after Thanksgiving. That will give things a chance to settle down. It will be a somewhat larger party than Liam’s birthday, so we’ll serve food from the buffet.”“I’ll coordinate it with cook, ma’am.”“I’d like you to help.