Fiction | June 01, 1992
Angel
Philip Graham
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Bradley already knew by heart the tales of the lonely angels that hovered at busty street corners and watched careless children; of angels whose tears for all the unconfessed sins of the world created the mountain streams that emptied into the oceans; and of angels that lived in upholstered charis and waited for lapsed believers to settle unsuspectingly into a suddenly renewed faith…
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