Source: Only Begotten Daughter (1990), Chapter 4 (p. 66)
“There’s something else, Beverly. I’m a minister of the Lord. This will be unusual for me, a kind of experiment.”
—
James K. Morrow
,
book
Only Begotten Daughter
“I know all about it, Reverend. You folks do more experimenting than Princeton’s entire physics department.”
Source: Only Begotten Daughter (1990), Chapter 4 (p. 66)
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