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Susan finds the convent just outside the city of Paris. She pulls on a bell rope and a nun dressed in white opens up a small grid and peers out. Are you our girl Susan? The nun asks in her French. Yes, I am, Susan says. The nun's key unlocks the black gate and Susan enters in and the nun locks the gate. Goodbye, Jude, she says in her tired mind, following the old nun. She ought to have told him, not left him at the train station like she had and not told him about her becoming a nun in a convent. He had asked her if she would marry him and she had not said no, but left him thinking she might in time. He had waved her off not knowing she was going off from him forever. She follows the old nun down cloisters white and sparse and chilly. She passes a statue with flowers and tickets with requests for prayers. She wonders about Jude, and what he is doing, what he thinks. A bell tolls. There is a square of sky visible above her. A bird sings. Another bell from somewhere gently rings.
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Feb 17, 2016
Feb 17, 2016 at 2:27 AM UTC
AT THE CONVENT 1980.
Susan finds the convent just outside the city of Paris. She pulls on a bell rope and a nun dressed in white opens up a small grid and peers out. Are you our girl Susan? The nun asks in her French. Yes, I am, Susan says. The nun's key unlocks the black gate and Susan enters in and the nun locks the gate. Goodbye, Jude, she says in her tired mind, following the old nun. She ought to have told him, not left him at the train station like she had and not told him about her becoming a nun in a convent. He had asked her if she would marry him and she had not said no, but left him thinking she might in time. He had waved her off not knowing she was going off from him forever. She follows the old nun down cloisters white and sparse and chilly. She passes a statue with flowers and tickets with requests for prayers. She wonders about Jude, and what he is doing, what he thinks. A bell tolls. There is a square of sky visible above her. A bird sings. Another bell from somewhere gently rings.
A GIRL ENTERS A CONVENT AND THINKS OF THE MAN SHE LEFT BEHIND IN 1980
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TerryCollett
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Feb 17, 2016
Feb 17, 2016 at 2:27 AM UTC
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