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“What do you mean, Cordelia is lying to us?” I asked.
“How can I say this without sounding like the asshole my wife thinks I am when it comes to religion? According to everyone we’ve spoken with—including her!—Cordelia is a religious woman. You know what that means around here. We told her that someone—a woman younger than her that Cordelia knew as a teenager—had just been murdered. What did she say?”
“Not much,” I admitted.
“Not much! She didn’t praise Jesus or invoke the Lord or talk about how he works or who he takes or whatever other crap it is those people spout when somebody dies.”
He had a point. But then, Diane also had a point saying that he was an asshole about religion, not that she would have used that word. I’d guess she called him an intolerant, know-it-all ass. Which
