Barb’s Reviews > Broken Country > Status Update

It follows that an order of nuns who named their school the Immaculate Conception Convent should be violently opposed to sex outside marriage, and quite possibly within it. Sister Ignatius has demonized it enough over the years that we are predestined with to develop life-long sexual hang-ups, or--as in the case of my sister--set upon a trail of wild promiscuity the moment we are set free.

I'm listless and pacing, churned up with feelings I won't t allow to become thoughts. It's the boy mostly. The grip of his hand. I'd forgotten how young children, much like animals, can sense your pain without being afraid of it.