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  • The principal who gave me a pink rosary
  • The tiny library with picture books about saints
  • The Halloween parades when we all dressed as saints
    • I was Saint Therese
  • Saddle shoes!
  • Gray-blue uniforms with red and yellow plaid
  • Christmas productions
  • Weekly mass
  • Reading aloud from Genesis at Kindergarten graduation
    • I was one of two students deemed the "best readers"
  • Art class taught by my mother
  • Stubborn, misbehaved pupils
  • Cubbies!
  • Various depictions of the Virgin Mary throughout the premises
  • My selection as an Indian in the Thanksgiving show, when I wanted to be a pilgrim
  • Rosaries recited on the sidewalk on cold winter mornings
  • Completed phonics exercises (blue pages)
  • Silently lining up for mass
  • Show and tell
  • A pizza made from cardboard and construction paper
  • Tearful responses to notes my mom left in my lunchbox
    • I was an excessively sensitive child; I still cry at cute things, God only knows why
  • Meaningless drawings made in the dirt with branches at recess
  • Loneliness and shyness
feb 4 2011 ∞
feb 5 2014 +