True Believer by Sparks

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He hesitated, hating the banality of their conversation.†

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My doctor always told me I needed extra cholesterol in my diet.†

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First the ladies' man and now the great altruist; well traveled but still grounded; worldly but still cognizant of the things that really mattered.†

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So why do you want me to discredit the story?†

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Jeremy learned about the vagaries of the weather, ridiculous government edicts, and how Wyatt—the other gas station owner— would gouge Jeremy if he ever went there for gas, since he fiddled with the calibration on the pumps as soon as the Unocal truck pulled away.†

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Most of the time, he enjoyed what he did and took pride in his work as a valuable public service, in a profession so special as to have its rights enumerated in the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America.†

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"They have a dance?" he asked, feigning ignorance.†

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With someone else, with anyone else, he would have said something flippant or changed the subject until he figured out another way to get through her door.†

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Two foals stood together near the center, their tails swishing in unison.†

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He'd exposed frauds, hoaxes, and forgeries.†

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Once he was finished with the hatchet job that would pose as an article, people around the country would assume that everyone who lived here was gullible, foolish, and superstitious.†

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Psychic abilities, premonitions, and intuition are simply a product of the interplay among experience, common sense, and accumulated knowledge.†

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Life in the city made owning a car superfluous, however, and he'd never been able to justify the expense.†

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He looked for solutions, he made suppositions, he tried to analyze long-term scenarios, in order to carefully assess the potential outcomes.†

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On the back of the brochure—surrounded by what seemed to be hand-drawn pictures of Casper—were testimonials from people who'd seen the lights and an excerpt from what appeared to be an article in the local newspaper.†

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8-degree rise in temperature over the last one hundred years, which foretold Sahara-like consequences throughout the United States, or (b) how global warming might cause the next ice age and turn the United States into an icy tundra.†

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His editor, however, had vetoed publishing it.†

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Its black trunk was wizened, and the low-hanging branches would have kept him and his brothers occupied for hours when they were boys.†