I was boarding a plane out of the West Coast on Ash Wednesday, still with ashes on my forehead, when a southern baptist struck up conversation with me. He was utterly impressed with this practice he'd never seen before.
A friend from Chicago later told me that people were lined up around the block all day at St Peter's in the Loop to get their ashes. In fact, this happened all over town. By the demeanor of lots of them -- not genuflecting upon arriving, lots of them black, you could guess a number weren't Catholic.
Are ashes cool in Chicago?
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