THE STORY: T. Lawrence Shannon was once a man of the cloth, but escaped from what he considered the hypocrisies of that life and instead moved to Mexico, where he now scrapes together a living by giving tours to American church groups. When an entanglement with a very young woman on his latest group has her chaperone threatening to report him and all his (numerous) vices, Shannon shacks up at the Costa Verde hotel, the preferred locale for his mental breakdowns. When a spinster artist and her poet grandfather arrive seeking shelter, the isolated cleric and lonely artist glimpse a gossamer hope of mutual understanding and future companionship.
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