““I was brought up as a Christian,” Cissy said. “Spelt K-I-L-L-J-O-Y. My mam still is one. When I said I was going to quit the church because of what I’d learned from Val about the history of slavery, I thought she was going to kill me!” She laughed nervously. But obviously that was not a joke.”

— John Brunner , book The Stone That Never Came Down

Source: The Stone That Never Came Down (1973), Chapter 24 (p. 187)

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