Teaching CCD

last night.  I substitute from time to time.  A fantastic form of penance by the way(I'm only half joking).  I was talking about English martyrs and how the English lifted a decapitated head up right after it was chopped off not to show the people but because the head was alive for a few seconds of horror and they wanted to make sure those last moments of torture were terrifying.

Any rate, a young lady raises her hand and dead serious asks "Can a person's head just fall off say if they are walking down the street?"

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I did laugh, not necessarily at her, and not necessarily not at her.

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