One of my favorite remembrances

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I was 15 when I decided to start working. Back in the 60's there was NOT a fast food or even retail store on every corner. Also stores closed early. I had already decided I wanted to at that minute be a nurse. Never made it to a nurse but took other avenues in the medical world. So I began my job as a nurses aide. Spent three years there with the 11 Carmelite Nuns and Mother Superior. We had 2 nuns that had the same first name. Sister Ursula in the office and Sister Ursula in the kitchen. And it was actually how you addressed them so everyone would know which one you were talking about. I had just starting working and remember I had to go down to get extra bread for the second floor meal. We had stairs at the end of the hall that would take you down to the kitchen where you would always find Sister Ursula. I only weighed 85lbs when I started working there. When she first met me, she commented on how thin I was. The following Sunday bless her heart, this elderly nun come up those 2 flights of stairs and brought me Sunday dinner before she would allow anyone else to eat. As long as I worked there for those 3 years every Sunday was baked chicken and stuffing. After that first time she came to bring me a plate, every sunday she would call up and make me come down to make my plate until I left working for them and joined the Army in 1970. I was thinking about it with Thursday being Thanksgiving. I bet she is still cooking and trying to feed everyone up in Heaven now! While most of the kitchen girls did not like her because she was very strict, I have always had a special place in my heart for her and she was never unkind to me. However, she never put any weight on me from eating her dinners LOL