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David Angel's avatar

She remembers your name

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B Stings's avatar

Have no idea the fates of these two...

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Carole Roseland's avatar

And look how you turned out!

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B Stings's avatar

Only two of a few to blame ;)

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Roger Scott's avatar

I would have ran so fast!

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B Stings's avatar

hell yeah!

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Sandy Shaller's avatar

B, Sister Nora sounds like a very negative force of nature. Your piece, and the picture, are hysterical and scary. I had friends who went to parochial schools and told me horror stories about the things that Nuns did to students. They may have married Jesus, but I'm sure he had those marriages annuled. :)

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B Stings's avatar

Hahaha. I'm sure he did. A lot of negative forces of nature have come out of that institution without a doubt. Now I'm interested to find out what ever became of these two. Pretty sure they've passed away and were already old when I was 7, 8, 9 and suffering their regime.

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Sandy Shaller's avatar

I'm Jewish, but my family is very mixed. My great grandma was Irish and Catholic and one of my grandpas was Italian from Sicily. At my Bar Mitzvah, my friends saw a nun sitting at one of the tables and asked me "Who is the nun." I said, "She's sister John Gregory, my cousin." They were just aghast. Sister John Gregory was not like your nun. She was a very gentle and loving soul, God rest her.

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B Stings's avatar

I'm sure she was great. Always a mixed bag in any institution no doubt. I've met my shsre of kind priests and nuns as well.

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Sandy Shaller's avatar

And I've known wonderful Rabbis and not so wonderful rabbis. One tannned my backside when I was eleven, but there was a fairly good reason. A story for another time.

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B Stings's avatar

Haha. And an event you'll never forget ;)

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Jo-Ann Petrarca's avatar

Catholic schools and nuns, what a fright from my childhood. This was a good one indeed B… thanks!

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B Stings's avatar

Oh yeah. The cause of many painful memories for many of us.

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Jo-Ann Petrarca's avatar

For sure.

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Kathleen Hobbs's avatar

Oh my goodness oh how I can relate to some of that. As soon as I saw the nun with the ruler, my young life flashed in front of me. I actually had a sister Amelia in the orphanage I was at.

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