Chapter 7When Gene Sherrin became a Minister in Kansas City, he felt a calm in his heart and mind the like of which he'd never known before, or at least not since his childhood. He was living, he felt, in the peace that was the due of those who served the Lord. Nevertheless, there were times when he felt lonely and in need of a mate, since he was a man just like any other – his having become a man of the cloth had changed nothing in that sense.
A number of women made a show of interest in him, among his parishioners; all of them staid, sensible women who sought to follow the teachings of the Holy Book – or so he believed, even if the truth was some of them only attended church to seek a mate or position themselves at the fount of all the gossip that did the rounds. But Gene managed to sur
