“Do not mistreat or oppress a foreigner, for you were foreigners in Egypt.”Exodus 22:21

“Oh, you’re one of them.”

I cringe. I wish she could feel me, hear me, cringe over the phone.

“I got a couple next door. Illegals.”

“Oh.”

“They got a daughter.”

I don’t know where this is going.

“She turned out to be a real whore.”

“Well, thank God I’m not.”

Silence.