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Gossip in the Garden

It’s not every day you see a serpent upset a marriage, much less unbalance a whole universe and cast a world into the depths of evil, but that’s what happened last Tuesday. There I was, picking some fruit from the approved trees, when I noticed this naked girl walking up to the one tree we are not supposed to touch.

Now, Matilda, I said to myself, it’s none of your business, but there she goes up to the tree. La-di-da, like it was a school field trip. I saw some fruit I really wanted that just happened to be nearby, so I stepped closer and could not help but overhear the conversation that was going on.

“Surely you will not die,” the serpent was hissing, which I thought odd. First, it was a serpent talking, and second, it was a bold-faced lie. The Almighty had specifically said, “Eat of this tree and you shall die.” Sounded pretty clear to me. I even wrote it down.

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