This is what I saw through my camera lens: Pastor Randy "Mack" Wolford, tossing and turning on the couch in his mother-in-law's West Virginia trailer, suffering from the pain of a rattlesnake bite he had received earlier in the day. Parishioners surrounding him in prayer in the stifling heat. His mother stroking his feet, her expression a mixture of concern, sorrow and, eventually, acceptance: This is how her eldest son -- a legend in the local Pentecostal serpent-handling community -- would die.
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Veteran snake-handling pastor dies of rattler bite
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