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#1: Margot's Choice COMPLETE Author: dackel, Location: Wolfenbuettel, Germany/Cambridge, England

Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 11:07 pm

This is my first drabble, please be nice to it. Any comments or corrections on typos or factual mistakes welcome. The bunny bit really hard and insisted on me writing this. I had REAL WORK to do. Own up, you lot, who sent the bunny to me...?

Dear Auntie Rob,

Thank you so much for all the news in your last letter you know how much we all love to hear about your community projects. Do tell us how your school assignment is working out, and of course, any exciting things which might happen you know Mother is always looking for new material for her books! And ever since you found Adrienne through your work your regular bulletins have been even more interesting for all of us!

School continues as usual, though it feels strange to be in our last year here. I can’t believe that we’re to leave soon. Time has flown so, and I know these last months will go just as quickly. Everyone is thinking about what they’re going to do next, which is scary – imagine us all grown up, with jobs, and worrying about such things as rent, tax and bank accounts! It seems incredible. Con knows what she wants to do, of course, and Len thinks she’ll go into teaching, as she wants to go in for further language studies. She shouldn’t have any difficulty getting into Oxford they’ll probably welcome her with open arms. We’re all tri-lingual, but I think Len was always the best, and she’s really interested in language. I just want to know that people will understand me, I’m not bothered about the grammar or the history of the words!

Auntie Rob, I want to ask you something that I’ve been wondering about for while now. Why did you actually decided to be a nun? I mean you could have done social work and all that kind of thing without going into an order. Why did you want to combine the two? I hope you don’t mind me asking, but I’d really like to understand what made you decide. I mean, you knew what you were giving up in terms of family life and independence, so what made you do it?

Len and Con are calling me to take Bruno for a walk, so I’ve got to be off. I’ll write again soon.

With love,
Margot

PS. Phil is getting better by leaps and bounds now.

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#2: Author: Cazx, Location: Swansea/Bristol

Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 11:17 pm

Oh this looks good Dackel! Looking forward to Robin's reply!

#3: Author: Vikki, Location: Sitting on an iceberg, freezing to death!!!

Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 11:22 pm

Oooh!!! This looks great!!

#4: Author: dackel, Location: Wolfenbuettel, Germany/Cambridge, England

Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 11:56 pm

Here's the next bit, probably a little early to post it, but never mind, it's all written (5 letters in all), so I might as well post the next one! And again, please tell me about any mistakes, I'm in the horrible position of not having any CS books here in college with me, so I can't check my facts!

Dear Margot,

Our project is going well so far - sending the sisters out to do supply teaching, especially in religious studies, which is woefully under-represented at some of the poorer primary schools, was a very good idea of our Mother Superior, and all the sisters who were chosen to take part are enjoying the work a lot. I teach the youngest class of four to five year olds, and all the practice I had looking after you lot when you were small stands me in good stead! Sister Mary Lucas is the “Head” of the sisters who have now taking up teaching duties, and she is wonderful at finding subjects and classes which suit each one of us. Lots of the sisters believe that she will be the next Abbess, though hopefully Mother Superior will continue to be well for many years yet.

I can’t believe that you are in last year at school either. It seems like yesterday that were tinies, chattering about all kinds of things, and never worrying about such terrible things as rents or taxes at all! Do you know that you’ve made me feel quite old? I count up the years, and they’ve all gone by, but they seem to have passed in a flash. It must be strange contemplating leaving school. I can remember when I left, and everyone was thinking of jobs – or husbands. Of course, there weren’t quite as many jobs open to women then. Just think, you can be whatever you want what an opportunity! You could even become a doctor if you wanted to, you know Daisy managed it, and loves her work. Don’t worry about it, though. I know your sisters have made up their minds what they want to do, and some of your friends probably have, too, but I don’t believe for one moment that you are the only one who hasn’t decided what to do with her life. Something will turn up, and you’ll find that it’s exactly what you want to do. Think about your strengths and what you love doing, and sooner or later it will all fall into place. That’s what happened to me!

Now I’ll come to your question. Of course I don’t mind you asking me about my decision to become a nun! I’d be a weak specimen of a sister indeed if I couldn’t even tell you why I entered the convent! It came about quite gradually, I hardly know when I first thought about it. I dare say the devout religious belief which I saw in my father, and then in your Auntie Madge and your mother gave a grounding of faith which deepened when my father died. I remember it being a comfort to me, although I was so young, and didn’t have the knowledge of my faith that I have today.

When I left the School, all I thought I would do was that I would help Joey with you lot, but I began to realise that much as I loved you all, I wanted to do something more with my life, and dedicate myself to some greater purpose. I thought about my childhood a lot, and realised, truly realised for the first time, that without Jem, Madge and your mother, and all their care, I would probably have died very young. It made me think that God must have wanted to stay alive for reason. And I was, and am, so grateful to him for sparing my life that I wanted to repay him in some way. I recognized from little things that I loved him, and yearned to spend my life serving him. The way I always saw him in everything that was good, and in everything that was beautiful. The happiness I felt when I was in church, when I prayed and could feel him listening, and when I felt his forgiveness for all my imperfections. And most of all when I saw him working in other people, and wanted him to work in me in that same way.

I don’t know if you remember, but when you were in La Sagesse, I spent a great deal of time with the nuns and spoke to them about their vocation, trying to find out what had made them leave behind what you mentioned, family life and their independence. They told me that their pupils and all the people whom they managed to help, and of whom they took care were their true families. Margot, do you remember the scene in Mark chapter three, when his family comes to take him away, and he tells the crowds that those believers around him are his family, those who fulfil the will of God? Well, that’s how I feel about my children in school and about all the others that we look after. Not that you aren’t my family, too, my family is just larger now. Believe me, dear, your family doesn’t diminish when you take up a religious vocation, it suddenly grows! And I feel that I am now truly fulfilling God’s will, and doing what he meant me to do. That is the greatest independence I need. I’m going to be a dreadful bore and quote the Bible at you again, this time it’s St.Paul he saw his greatest freedom in servitude to God, and that is how I feel about myself. Serving the God whom I love, and who I can be sure loves me is the greatest freedom I could desire.

There, you’ve almost got me to write a sermon for you! I’m quite proud of myself!

I need to finish here, our quiet time is almost over, and I will glad to go to bed. Remember that a bell wakes me here just it wakes you all the way over there in Switzerland, and it rings a lot earlier for me!

With lots of love,
Auntie Robin
Soeur Marie Cecile

PS. If you have any more questions, don’t worry about asking them, I’ll be more than glad to answer.

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#5: Author: Xanthe, Location: London/Cambridge

Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 12:13 am

Excuse me while I have a big fat gloat, because I have read all of this and it is fab....... Very Happy

#6: Author: Dawn, Location: Leeds, West Yorks

Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 1:01 am

Dackel this is wonderful I never was happy with Margot becoming a nun adn I think this is going a long way towards reconciling me with EBD's ideas for her

#7: Author: Susan, Location: Carlisle

Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 1:53 am

Thank you Dackel this looks really good.

#8: Author: Marianne, Location: Lancaster

Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 1:59 am

Beautiful...thanks!

#9: Author: Pado, Location: Connecticut, USA

Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 3:55 am

Really quite wonderful. And perfectly sensible too, that Margot would approach Robin in this way.

#10: Author: Miss Di, Location: Newcastle, NSW

Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 4:21 am

I'm enjoying the letters too. Lovely Rob being so understanding and tactfull about and to Margot.

#11: Author: Cazx, Location: Swansea/Bristol

Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 10:16 am

Robin's reply was lovely!

#12: Author: Robin, Location: London

Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 11:20 am

aww this is lovely. Think you have captured Robin exactly - I always worried that she'd change hugely when she became a nun, but this has reassured me! thanks Dackel

#13: Author: Nell, Location: London, England

Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 12:29 pm

This is really good! Look forward to the next three letters! Thank you dackel!

#14: Author: francesn, Location: away with the faeries

Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 1:30 pm

This is really really good. I was another one who never quite understood Margot wanting to become a nun - or for that matter Robin, but this is making a lot of sense.

#15: Author: Ruth B, Location: Oxford, UK

Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 1:35 pm

This is really great, Dackel. I'd often thought of this kind of correspondence as I'm sure Margot would have talked to Robin, but the bunny didn't bite. Glad it got you!!

#16: Author: Josie, Location: London

Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 3:07 pm

Wonderful dackel. Very Happy

What a fabulous idea, and I think you've captured them both perfectly. Looking forward to the rest.

#17: Author: LadyGuinevere, Location: Leicester

Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 7:53 pm

I like it! It's completely natural that Margot would go to Robin for advice, and I think you've drawn them both really well Smile

#18: Author: Lesley, Location: Allhallows, Kent

Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 8:30 pm

Thios is lovely, thanks Dackel!

#19: Margot's Choice 3.3.05 St. Agnes Author: dackel, Location: Wolfenbuettel, Germany/Cambridge, England

Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 8:31 pm

Here's the next one. Thank you for all the encouraging comments!

Dear Auntie Rob,

Thank you so much for your amazingly long letter, you really have done yourself proud! Everyone here is fine, although the weather is absolutely horrible. It’s been raining for three days as though it will never stop! We couldn’t even go to the first service this morning, as people are worried about us all becoming ill, and there are rumours of land-slides and various other horrors. The Juniors are terrible – you’ll remember what they’re like when they haven’t been out in a while, and the Middles are just as bad, only they’re better at it, if you see what I mean! I just hope it stops soon, then we can send them all out to play hockey or lacrosse, and thoroughly work out their fidgets and sheer naughtiness. We’ve been giving out order marks like sweets at a carnival!

I’ve thought a lot about what you wrote in your last letter, and it’s helped me sort out some things in my mind which have been bothering me for some time now. You know I’m deciding what to do after I finish school. I would like to study medicine, but I can’t see myself in a regular hospital, I want to be out in the world helping people! Not just medically either, but with their lives and all their problems. And I feel I want to do something big and important with my life. Probably lots of people feel like that, and then they end up doing something they hate, fall into a routine of life, and never do what they wanted. I don’t want that to happen to me. And I need your help, because I think I’ve made decision, and I don’t know if Mother and Dad will approve.

I’ll just explain what I’m thinking of, and how I came to think of it, so that you don’t believe I’m making an uninformed or spontaneous choice. I would like to become a medical missionary, and work with children abroad, in India or Africa. I really mean this seriously, and I know what that means. I shall enter an order and complete my medical and missionary training, and then I shall be in a foreign country, working with people whose language I shall have to learn, and who maybe won’t appreciate what I’m trying to do for them. I really do know what I want. I’ve read several books about missionary work, and I’ve spoken to our priest, who was a missionary in South America for a short time, and I honestly believe that this is what God wants me to do with my life. That’s why I asked you about your reasons for becoming a nun, I wanted to be sure that I was making the right decision for myself. But, actually, it feels as if the decision had already been made, and was just waiting for me to find out about it.

Do you remember “my devil”? I’ve fought against him so hard all these years, and I finally feel that I am winning and that I am closer to God than I ever was before. You know how happy that makes me, Auntie Rob, because you’ve felt the same yourself. I think the fight against my devil has been for me what your gratefulness to God for saving your life was for you. It’s brought me to God, and now I have truly found him, I don’t ever want to leave him again. I wish I could bring this joy to others, and that’s why I want to be missionary. But I don’t just want to try and give faith, I want to offer practical help as well. And I’ve always admired doctors, and all the work they do. With my upbringing it would more surprising I didn’t! I really, honestly feel that this task has been laid out for me “from the beginning” (if you can quote the Bible, then so can I!), and that this is the one task which will not pale as the years go by and which will fill my life, just as your vocation has filled yours.

Please think carefully about what I’ve said, and when you write back, let me know your candid opinion. I felt I wanted to ask you about it first, because it’s such a big decision, and you made that decision yourself.

Lots of love,
Margot

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#20: Author: Ally, Location: Jack Maynard's Dressing Room!!

Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 8:43 pm

This is really lovely Dackel, thank you Very Happy

#21: Author: Lesley, Location: Allhallows, Kent

Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 8:52 pm

That's a lovely letter from Margot - and it feels right that she'd tell Rob before anyone else.

#22: Author: Kat, Location: Swansea

Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 9:31 pm

Awww! Brilliant stuff Dackel - hope we get more soon! *hint hint* Wink

#23: Author: Vikki, Location: Sitting on an iceberg, freezing to death!!!

Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 10:48 pm

Wonderful!!! So glad Margot had someone she could ask about her descision

#24: Author: Cazx, Location: Swansea/Bristol

Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2005 11:22 pm

Wow thanks Dackel. You've really captured Margot. Very Happy

#25: Author: francesn, Location: away with the faeries

Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2005 12:14 am

brilliant - such a clear and logical explanation but moving and so wonderfully written thanks dackel

#26: Author: Joey, Location: Cambridge

Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2005 10:49 am

This is wonderful, Dackel. Thank you so much. I feel so humbled that this was inspired by All Shall be Well.

#27: Author: Josie, Location: London

Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2005 10:55 am

What an absolutely wonderful letter from Margot.Thanks dackel- this is really good.

#28: Author: Nell, Location: London, England

Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2005 11:04 am

Thank you dackel a truely lovely letter and really well reasoned!I also loved this line

Quote:

We’ve been giving out order marks like sweets at a carnival!

it reminded me of Carnival in the Rhine valley!

#29: Author: pim, Location: the Derbyshire wilderness

Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2005 11:42 am

This is wonderful, love it, thank you Dackel Very Happy

#30: Author: LizB, Location: Oxon, England

Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2005 12:56 pm

This is lovely Dackel - so good to see Margot's reasoning behind her decision and so natural she should write to Robin about it. Looking forward to more Liz

#31: Author: Sarah_K, Location: St Albans/Leicester

Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2005 4:04 pm

Just found this dackel and I'm really enjoying it! It's lovely to see how Margot decided to become a missionary.

#32: Author: Carolyn P, Location: Lancaster, England

Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2005 10:07 pm

This is great and I love the way Margot and Robin are discussing this.

#33: Author: Guest,

Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2005 10:09 pm

Quote:

I also loved this line

Quote:

We’ve been giving out order marks like sweets at a carnival!

it reminded me of Carnival in the Rhine valley!

Ah well, I live in Germany and have endured many Carnivals, that's probably where the image came from - I was so relieved to miss it this year! You might be able to tell that I'm not a fan!

#34: Author: dackel, Location: Wolfenbuettel, Germany/Cambridge, England

Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2005 10:15 pm

Yes, that was me, and yes, I did forget to sign in... Embarassed

Here's the next letter, I'll try to post the last one tomorrow.

Dear Margot,

I’ve taken two week’s time to think over your letter.

I can’t deny that I was surprised when I read it. I never thought of you as a nun, and I still can’t see in an ordinary convent but the picture of you in a native village in Africa, teaching the children, and treating the sick and those in need suddenly arose before my mind’s eye, and seemed right for you. That seemed more like you, or more like the you I remember, because, of course, I haven’t seen you in some years now.

Sweetheart, I can’t tell you what to do with your life, and I certainly cannot, and would not, forbid you to do what you have set your heart on doing. But remember exactly what you will be giving up, and what you will be going to. You will have to live in extremely primitive conditions, and you will be faced with illnesses you have never seen before. I know your training as a doctor would prepare you, but it’s always different “on the ground” as they say. All I can tell you is that my vocation has filled my life with happiness, and with a meaning which I would not give up for anything. If your choice gives you the fulfilled life which I enjoy, then you will know that you have made the right decision. And remember that any choice you make now need not be final. Don’t feel trapped into doing anything. If you enrol in the order and find that it is utterly different from what you imagined, then you can step out, and still complete your medical training. Likewise, if you find that you don’t like your medical studies, you can still be a missionary.

Margot, I know you don’t need me to tell you to think carefully before you commit yourself to anything. You seem to have thought it through very thoroughly, and have countered almost all my arguments and quibbles before I can make them. And I would be the last person to stop anyone from embarking on a religious life. But make no mistake, it is an adventure, and you don’t know where it will take you. Your superiors will be able to order to go to one place, or leave another, or even come back to your home convent, for I imagine that you will always be attached to a house in Europe. Don’t think that you will be able to make the decisions – I know how stubborn you can be on occasion! And I’m sure that will stand you in good stead if you transform that stubborn streak of yours into determination, but remember that your life will no longer be truly your own.

You will have much time during your novitiate and during your medical training to make your final decision. I just want to be certain, and more importantly, I want you to be certain, that that final decision is right for you, and will continue being right for you for the rest of your life. That is the only advice I can give you: if you are not sure do not commit yourself to a life of service to others.

I very much doubt that you will need my support to persuade your parents to agree to allow you to enter into an order, and to take the training you need. If I know them, they will be proud of you rather than trying to hold you back. Persuading your mother to let you go to Africa is a completely different question, of course! If you do need my help, though, just write to me, and I shall defend you and your ideas to your parents, and tell them that you are grown up now, and need to make your own decisions.

With all my love,
Auntie Robin
Soeur Marie Cecile

PS. At least if you become a nun, you will never have to worry about rent or tax, though you may possibly have to deal with bank accounts now and then!

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#35: Author: Lesley, Location: Allhallows, Kent

Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2005 10:20 pm

What a lovely letter -thanks dackel. Laughing

#36: Author: Marianne, Location: Lancaster

Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2005 11:07 pm

aw, lovelyness, thanks! Very Happy

#37: Author: Susan, Location: Carlisle

Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2005 12:55 am

Thank you Dackel that was a lovely letter from Robin.

#38: Author: LizB, Location: Oxon, England

Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2005 11:36 am

Thanks Dackel, that was a lovely supportive letter - and I love the PS! Liz

#39: Author: Cazx, Location: Swansea/Bristol

Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2005 12:30 pm

That was such a nice letter! Smile

#40: Author: patmac, Location: Yorkshire England

Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2005 12:38 pm

I've just read this from the start and it is so good. I always thought EBD sent robin off to be a Nun because she was so impossibly good and also because she seemed to think TB could be inherited so she couldn't marry - which had been debunked by that time. I was only reconciled to her as a strong character at the start of Adrienne. With Margot, I felt she just didn't know what to do with her! I thought Joey and Jack might have thought she needed controlling - like sending Mike to the Navy! This is much better. Looking forward to the last letters.

#41: Author: Kat, Location: Swansea

Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2005 4:11 pm

Thanks Dackel!! A lovely letter Smile

#42: Author: Helen P, Location: Cheshire

Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2005 10:44 pm

Thankyou Dackel, this is excellent. Robin's reaction is very understandable and believable. Looking forward to Margot's reply!

#43: Author: dackel, Location: Wolfenbuettel, Germany/Cambridge, England

Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 12:14 am

Well, this is the last one - glad you all seem to have enjoyed it!

Dear Auntie Rob,

Your letter helped such a lot, thank you for all your advice.

I’m sure, now, that I’ve made the right choice for myself, and that I won’t change my mind. But it’s also nice to know that I won’t be forced into anything, and that I can change my mind at almost any stage if I really want to. Strangely, that makes me feel more secure and more certain in my decision.

I’ve decided to do my very best in all my subjects, as they will all be relevant and important for my future work. My teachers will probably get a shock, because although I’m no slacker, I’ve never worked like Len! However, I’ve got a lot better than I was, and my grades are just one more barrier to overcome. And now I’ve got a real goal to work towards, I’m sure putting all my heart into my work will be easier.

I don’t think I’ll tell Mother and Dad until I leave school, my choice will seem more mature, and they’ll be lore likely to accept it if it doesn’t come from school-girl. And if I tell them how long I’ve been thinking about it, they should realise that I’m serious, and that I’m making an informed decision, and that this isn’t just another of “Margot’s whims”. And I feel I need more time before I can actually talk to anyone about it, it seems a very private thing just at the moment. I think I need time to get used to it myself. Writing to you is different, it’s writing, not talking, and it’s to you. That didn’t make much sense, but I’m sure you know what I mean.

All the others are fine, they’ll be writing to you in due course, and Mother says I’m to tell you that the kids have all grown and she’ll be sending new photos soon, and that she’ll have to think of having the quads she’s always threatening us with soon. I shudder at the thought, our house is full enough as it is, what with the little ones and all the various adoptees!

With lots of love,
Margot

PS. Thank you so much for all you advice and for taking me seriously, as someone who is old and responsible enough to make such a weighty choice.

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#44: Author: patmac, Location: Yorkshire England

Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 12:25 am

Superb and very believable. thank you, Dackel.

#45: Author: Kat, Location: Swansea

Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 12:38 am

Very touching - and a lovely insight in to how Margot made her decision. Thank you Dackel!

#46: Author: Dawn, Location: Leeds, West Yorks

Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 1:11 am

Love the bit about the quads in Margot's letter - so realistic Very Happy

Are you sure you wouldn't like to write more of these Dackel? I have really enjoyed readiing them and they've given me a whole new insight inot how and why Margot made the decision to be a nun - thankyou

#47: Author: Susan, Location: Carlisle

Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 1:17 am

Thanks Dackel Margot's letter is really nice. Just what one could expect and her reasoning is very good.

#48: Author: Kathy_S, Location: midwestern US

Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 3:05 am

Thank you, Dackel. Very believable, and I like it that Margot's talking with Robin years before she actually breaks the news to the rest of the family. It really takes the edge off the apparent suddenness of her decision. Though I think she says she's been thinking about it for a long time, it still seemed sudden to me.

#49: Author: Tahnee, Location: New Zealand

Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 5:26 am

I am enjoying this! I had 2 great aunts, both of whom were nuns. They would probably have entered in the 1940s as they both had their 50th anniversaries in the early 1990s. I was just wondering about the way Robin has been signing her letters, as my aunts always always signed "Yours in Christ", which I always thought nice, even to a non-religious person like me.

#50: Author: Lesley, Location: Allhallows, Kent

Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 10:46 am

Thanks for that Dackel - makes Margot's decision seem far more believable.

#51: Author: Cazx, Location: Swansea/Bristol

Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 11:19 am

This has been lovely Dackel, and has made the storyline about Margot becoming a nun much more believable to me!

#52: Author: LadyGuinevere, Location: Leicester

Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 11:59 am

Thank you dackel, it was a wonderful piece and beautifully thought out. It makes us understand Margot's decision more than EBD ever did! Smile

#53: Author: LizB, Location: Oxon, England

Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 2:30 pm

Thanks Dackel, it has been so lovely to see Margot come to a decision she's happy with and also her realism in that people may think it's a whim of hers because she's changed her mind in the past. Liz

#54: Author: pim, Location: the Derbyshire wilderness

Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 11:38 pm

Thank you for a wonderful drabble Dackel.

#55: Author: Josie, Location: London

Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 7:51 am

Thanks dackel. This was a really lovely drabble.

Don't suppose you can be persuaded to carry the correspondence on once Margot's left school? Wink

#56: Author: dackel, Location: Wolfenbuettel, Germany/Cambridge, England

Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 10:55 pm

Hello, lovely people, thank you so much for all compliments!

I have to admit that I'm woefully ignorant of a nun's life in a convent, or of the average missionary life (I'm not even Catholic), so I might have to do a bit of research before I could carry on the correspondance - let's see if the bunny bites!

And about the way Robin signes her letters, I just made her sign them as my family always have! "Yours in Christ" is lovely, though, and very fitting for a nun. I just thought that this was a bit more family and personal - after all, she had helped to bring the trips up for the first few years of their lives!

I'm glad no obvious mistakes have come up, as I said, I had no CS books to check my drabble against, so it could all have gone horribly wrong!

#57: Author: Elisabeth,

Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 6:24 pm

Just read the whole thing through, Dackel. It's really beautiful. Love Margot's reasons for her choice.

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