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No surprise there: His last conversion story was bulls–t, too.

The only halfway interesting part is that both stories turn out to be the same bulls–t: Vance’s story—once again—is that he put his faith in the wrong people and institutions and discovered the error of his ways at precisely the moment when doing so would do the most to advance his career.

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No surprise there: His last conversion story was bulls–t, too.

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