At the church Escobar built, some Colombians still come to worship him like a saint.

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Ally willed herself to remember real things about her brother, neutral things, uncontaminated by the new aura, like worship and dread, that was attached to the idea of him.

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These no doubt brought him to the attention of the citizens of Lancaster, a farming community north of Worcester, who in 1815 commissioned him to design their joint meetinghouse and place of worship. (In Massachusetts, church and town activities were not separated until 1830.) Construction was under way during the next two years.

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He loves him in the same self-angering way that Cassius, I imagine, used to worship Caesar, before the latter swelled into a god.

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In October he decided to dump his collection--claiming that "I didn't really want to worship false icons"--and to raise cash that, as it turns out, will help him pay his divorce lawyers.

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