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“Like a banana, the missionary is germinated and grows in the protected home environment. Finally ties with the mother plant are cut and the "green" recruit is transplanted to a foreign shore. There he slowly ripens, until at the end of a four-year term he is considered ripe, thus earning the ominous title: "senior missionary".”
― Larry Dinkins

“Like a banana, the missionary is germinated and grows in the protected home environment. Finally ties with the mother plant are cut and the "green" recruit is transplanted to a foreign hsore. There he slowly ripens, until at the end of a four-year term he is considered ripe, thus earning the ominous title: "senior missionary".”
― Larry Dinkins, Help! My Halo is Slipping: The Saga of a First-Term Missionary