Little Sister: A Memoir

obedience-and-authority

• I wanted nothing to do with martyrs… I nodded, as I knew I had to, and the deed was done. I was no longer Mary Patricia.

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• 'Do you freely give yourself to God?' I answered, 'I do.' It was a lie.

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trauma-and-survival

• Sister Catherine used the other to retrieve the Big Punisher and began beating me… hitting my back, shoulders, thighs, and backside.

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• I dreamed I was submerged in a pond covered with thick ice… Find the air. As my nose reached the ceiling of ice, I breathed.

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self-and-identity

• My worldly attire felt more like a banishment outfit than an entrée into the world.

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• As the bubbles evaporated on my body, I felt… the small bathroom suffused in the heavenly scent of roses, blissful silence.

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