African American
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Mavis sifted through her information alone, looking at it from a variety of angles, depending on the day, and coming up with different interpretations. At church, the preacher talked about charity and forgiveness as if he practiced both himself, but Mavis remembered the look of greed on his face as he pushed forward to claim the last piece of Mrs. Dumfrey’s lemon cheesecake at the picnic that wasn’t a picnic at all, as if nothing out of the ordinary was happening around them.
