Monday morning rolled around, and per her custom, Barbara was up and out the door early, heading to the Legal Grounds Coffee Shop to talk with Deena about their new book club. Book clubs were a tricky thing. You didn’t run a notice in the newspaper inviting people to join, unless you wanted the pastor’s wife from the big new church on the outskirts of town to show up under the pretense of discussing literature, when what she actually wanted was to save everyone.
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