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How did Alva describe the church to Carol after she nearly fainted? What did she say about her own religious experience?

Alva tells Carol it was okay that the church experience scared her, that Carol was not used to hearing the feeling people kept hidden inside of themselves. She compares it to the normal way music can make people feel things and that religious music is the same, if not sometimes even more amplified. The religious music can be like "hope in their blood, their bones." The church is one of the few places, if not the only place, that Black people can feel at home, where they can let all their emotions out. While it might sound scary or overwhelming, its a...