How To Stop Church Gossip

> Mildred, the church gossip, and  self-appointed monitor of the church's
> morals, kept
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> sticking her nose into other  people's business.
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> Several members did not approve of  her extra- curricular activities, but
> feared her
> enough to maintain their  silence.
>
> She made a mistake, however, when she accused Frank, a  new member, of
> being an
> alcoholic after she saw his old  pickup parked in front of the
> town's only bar one  afternoon.
>
>
> She emphatically told Frank (and  several others) that everyone seeing it
> there
> would know what  he was doing!
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> Frank, a man of few words, stared at her for a  moment and just turned and
> walked away.
> He didn't explain, defend, or  deny.  He said nothing.
>
>
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> Later that evening, Frank quietly  parked his pickup in front of Mildred's
> house
> ... walked home .... and left it  there all night.
> (You gotta love  Frank!)