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The Real Deal
Arriving earlier than usual this morning at the Church office, I found my Pastor waiting impatiently for me to write his latest epiphany. He had a story to tell and wanted it written by my skillful hand. “Yesterday,” he said, “was a beautiful day of contrasts and sameness.” He went on (endlessly, it seemed) about the juxtaposition of two encounters that had been a part of his Sunday. First, there was the old man (93 to be exact) who has been separated from his wife by her Alzheimer’s disease. They have been married for 68 years and just in the past month she had been moved from their meager assisted living…