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Loretta
@noni1959 (13048)
• United States
29 Jan
My ex-daughter-in-law recently returned from a trip to Portugal and Spain, and she came home bearing gifts. Unfortunately, one of her suitcases was confiscated because she forgot to declare the items inside, an expensive lesson...
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LindaOH
@LindaOHio (222302)
• United States
5 May 22
I thought of a couple other things about elementary school; so I'm writing an addendum:
Since almost all of the kids walked to school, we had a very friendly cop called Mack that would cross us over the final main street before...
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LindaOH
@LindaOHio (222302)
• United States
26 Apr 22
This subject was suggested by @JudyEv.
To continue on:
I always walked to school. I remember one winter walking in snow up over my knees. A police car pulled up; and the policeman told me that there wasn't any school. He was...
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Always smiling
@allknowing (153530)
• India
5 Jul 18
I have dealt with nuns and their cold attitude towards me when I took the whole responsibility to entertain those poor kids year after year during Christmas time. The money was never given to them but I personally spent it on the...
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oyenkai
@oyenkai (4394)
• Philippines
14 Jan 09
The Manhattan Nuns filed a law suit against Gloria Lim, living in their neighboring apartment, for cooking dried fish. The Nuns mistook the "stench" for decomposing corpse and called the fire department. Gloria was adamant when...
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twoey68
@twoey68 (13627)
• United States
18 Oct 08
For some reason nuns have always held an air of mystery to me…I don’t know why maybe. Perhaps b/c when I was young I can remember going to the Catholic Church and seeing them. Perhaps it’s b/c of their ability to remain separated...
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estherlou
@estherlou (5015)
• United States
10 Jun 08
Two elderly Nuns left their convent in Italy for health reasons. When they tried to return, they were refused. They chained themselves to a lamp post outside of the Vatican to get the Pope's attention so he could intervene on...
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webeishere
@webeishere (36313)
• United States
11 Jan 08
Okay another kind of funny story about me and my going to Catholic School back in the 60's. We lived about 2 miles from school and all 5 of us kids walked that route each day. Mom made us all lunches the night before so she could...
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carpenter5
@carpenter5 (6782)
• United States
27 Sep 07
Today, there was an article in the newspaper about 6 nuns from an order in my hometown who had been excommunicated from the Catholic Church. While I am not Catholic, I have many family members who are, and there is much discussion...
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