Stage Freight

May 13, 2011 / Canada

Late one Saturday night, three friends and myself, we were sitting around a table at the Templeton , a diner nestled among the cinemas, sex shops, and XXX video stores along the seedy side of Granville Street in downtown Vancouver. My friends started discussing religion and somehow we got into talking about the Pentecostal church, which led us t...

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me to faint face down into my burger and fries. I was desperate to change the subject and willing to say almost anything to avoid the embarrassment of having to wipe ketchup and burger grease off my face. “I have the best religion, in the world” I declared to my friends. Everybody’s head popped up and they were looking at me. I knew I had their attention for the next 2 or maybe 3 minutes. I better say something good, or else we will spend the rest of night in purgatory. “I have the best religion in the world and it is called Flamenco”. I

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