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Monday, August 18, 2008, 12:07 PM
Ryan Sayre Patrico

Walking in the underground tunnel between Times Square and Port Authority, I overheard a conversation between a father and his young son as they passed a man handing out literature on the “hard facts” of heaven and hell:

Son: Daddy, what’s hell?

Father: Well, it’s a place where you kind of just sit in fire.

Sigh. Another missed teaching moment.