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"Hello, Francois", says Carl, still totally gobsmacked, "How did you get here." "How did you get here." "We were all seated in a coffee shop midtown on Broadway and then this Jesus kid here shows up, and now we are all here. By the way, I would like you to meet Lawrence, and Caspar, and Stella, and Sven." "The pleasure is mine" says Francois, clearly holding on to his aplomb, and taking a seat between Sven Lindstrom and my brother-in-law. "This person here just showed up on our doorstep and told me I was to come with...her? him?" "My eternal servants do not have gender as it is known on the earth", remarks Jesus. "You may call this one Lan." "Anyway, they gave me time to call the others to let them kow we would be all indisposed for a while in an emergency retreat..." "They will also be summoned", says Lan in one of the purest and clearest voices I have ever heard. They are wearing a long white tunic with a bright lavander purple robe fastened over one shoulder. This person or being is one of the most remarkably beautiful beings I have ever laid eyes upon. "The painters have agreed to leave the extra set of keys you gave them inside the front door. If you reach into your pocket you will find the original keys there, Carl." "So they are", he says, dumbfounded....