40 years a Pope/draft 1
fiction
Edward w Pritchard
Forty years a Pope, Pope Leo the 9th, a man of business was forced by circumstance to perform an act of human kindness. While walking about his chores and duties performing the sacraments during important and timely affairs of state the Pope noticed a little girl in row nine begin to yawn, perhaps a precursor to nodding off entirely.
Deep among the vestments strategically placed for later lunch the Pope took an orange, sweet and flavorful and walking down the aisles in formal two step handed the orange wrapped in fine silks to the surprised girl and smiled once to her chagrined Mother and Father.
As he handed the girl the orange the Pope heard the distant ping of the drumming rain on the fortress church roof high overhead and wondered briefly what time of day it was back home in blue Tuscany.
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