Delano believed that everyone was a born shape-shifter, and that that was one of God’s greatest blessings. With enough practice in bathroom mirrors and the right clothes a man could be whomever he wanted to be just by speaking it into existence. He’d seen the proof of it in his own life. Over time he’d been able to change creek water into a cure-all, ground up grass clippings into certified herbal tea, solely through the power of his personality. He told Alex to view each day as a blank slate. What a man made of it was based solely on how hard he bent the people he met to his point of view.

            The problem, as Alex saw it, was that Delano had conned himself into believing that if he made enough money he could make himself righ...

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