Chameleon

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“Why would a nun be on the make?”

“Wait a minute, I think I heard this one. But the way I heard it, the nun leaves the-whaddya call it? — the convent, the order, whatever. It’s the middle of the school year, the wrong time for the job market, her being a teacher and everything. So, to tide her over, she gets a job as a hooker. And she does fantastic business.

“Her pimp can’t figure it out. She isn’t that great a looker, but she’s bringing in twice the trade of any of his other girls. So, to learn how she does it, the pimp bugs her room. He hears her, usin’ that tone of voice kindergarten teachers use-only she’s talkin’ to a john. And she’s sayin’, ‘No, no! You’re doing it all wrong. You’re going to have to do it over and over again until you get it right!’”

“Very funny. But I wasn’t joking.”

“Whaddya mean?”

“Over there …”Under cover of his newspaper he gestured toward the far side of the lobby of the Pontchartrain.

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