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'Agatha Of Little Neon' falls out of love with the church

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Is There Such a Thing as a Nun?

I was raised catholic, and i was very good at being catholic. It's where i met my first nun. She taught me macro economics. The fact that a woman who had taken a vow of poverty was teaching me about free markets and trickle down economics is just a delightful bit of ironythat i'll never quite get over. I want to get you to read a section from the book because you have some stunning vignettes of everyday life that most of us let escape without notice. We watched them snicker to each other, and knew without hearing that they were mocking him when they had the chance. Then we watched the boys fill a yellow bus and go the jump and r

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