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Heaven or Las Vegas

Elliot Worsell

@ElliotWorsell

Online Editor

THOUGH typically good at avoiding eye contact on the Las Vegas strip, I happened to fail on this mission when approaching two Jehovah’s Witnesses standing outside a Shake Shack as a man nearby tried to sell me a CD of his rap music and a woman oohed and aahed as she hopped barefoot on a scorching hot pavement. She smiled at me, this Witness, shielded from the sun and protected from the 45-degree heat by an umbrella, and on her board I read the words “Find Family Happiness”. I wasn’t sure in that moment who felt more out of place: me or her. I worried, too, that she had seen

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