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Heaven's waiting room, where souls are scrubbed clean before the velvet rope lifts.
means In Catholic theology, a temporary state of purification for the saved but not-yet-spotless dead.
from From Latin purgatorium, the place of cleansing, from purgare, to purge or make pure.
Dante's mapHe built it as a seven-tier penance mountain.
Protestant cutReformers axed it, finding no scriptural lease.
Everyday useNow any maddening interminable wait, like the DMV.