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It's Christmastime in the Southland in this near-future vision of 21st century California. Our narrators, an ex-con turned pistol-carrying priest, and Sugar Child, a halfway house resident, have just met. The priest is a donations solicitor for Blessed World, the church and charity, and works downtown, "where I bang a tambourine and beg for money in the mellifluous, singsong voice beloved by children worldwide: Help the needy, give to the poor, amen." But nothing is going right. Hassled by SWAT cops, and troubled after a failed marriage, he's losing faith in himself.
Sugar Child has her own problems. She's arrested by SWAT police, and sent to "lockdown." Her opinion of the priest is no better: She's never met a man who was stronger than a woman. Looking at him, she never will.
As the days speed toward Christmas—holiday shoppers aren't giving him any money—the priest wonders whether there isn't some new mission awaiting him, one that'll help the people in the...

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