“And Jesus said to him,
“And Jesus said to him,“And Jesus said to him,‘Today salvation has come to this house…’”
‘Today salvation has come to this house…’”‘Today salvation has come to this house…’”(Luke 19:9, English Standard Version)
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“Where – the – actual f**k – have you been?!”
actual fuckThe irony, he thought, was that Jan’s verbal explosion wasn’t the strangest thing to have happened so far that day. Adam had exhausted the battery on his phone the previous night; between scrolling aimlessly through old photographs and conducting research online in a bid to make some sort of progress on his latest written work – a short story which had seemed like a good idea at the time, when inspiration has first struck on that last afternoon in Hilda’s now-defunct painting shop – he’d drai
