She’s in an after-church meeting about the Healing Prayer Revival Day that Vangie organized, but she would prefer to be having her teeth filed. She just couldn’t say no to Vangie this time, what with a gator on her property devouring Vangie’s dog right before her very eyes. It will just be a few months of this nonsense, and then the revival day will be over and done, and perhaps by that point Vangie will have set her sights on another Lowcountry town to sell off or evangelize. “Now, here’s a sample schedule of how we held this day at my old church in Houston,” Vangie says as she licks her finger and passes out the stacks of papers to the vestry members. “First we started with teaching and preaching, then moved to the laying on of hands for those who wanted prayer, and we concluded with the Generational Healing Eucharist.” “The laying on of hands?” Gus Dowdy, the town pharmacist, asks. “What do you mean by that?” “Well,” says Vangie, blinking her big, round eyelids and clapping her hands together once.
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