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In the days following that last Christmas, we didn’t talk about the past. We talked about the future. We spoke of the sorrow, of missing our children’s weddings and the births of their children, our grandchildren. We talked about her funeral, the eulogy I would give, the music, her burial. Pat was not controlling, but she did have specific requests. She wanted her service to be a simple one. She spoke of meeting God. She had some questions for him. She wanted to know why there were no women priests, whether that was His idea.
—Joe D’Arrigo, “Silence”
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