A lonely woman in her early thirties, Nora Maloney believes she is responsible for the mysterious teenaged death of her childhood love, Stuart. She can no longer handle the guilt and knows that the only way out is to overdose on pills.
Too bad things don’t work out as she planned. Instead of winding up dead, she wakes up to a crass but thoughtful, eccentric but witty guardian angel named Cassock, who tries various tough love tactics to open her eyes to the possibility of happiness that lay before her. This unlikely angel tests Nora’s character by frightening her with terrible visions and experiences, but in the good name of regeneration.
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“O’ Cassock, as I live and breathe-”
“The Devil never even lived.”
“He’s talking in palindromes again,” I said, smiling sarcastically at him, hoping he would be amused at the statement.
“Do go to God,” he replied.
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