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Title: Margot Takes Her Vows Post by Shander on Jan 4th, 2004, 8:43pm Margot woke up that morning with a deep sense of joy in her heart. Finally, after years of work, she was getting her desire. She was sorry that her family couldn't be there, but the distance was simply too far to travel. She had all of their good wishes in letters. Lying there she realized that if she didn't get up, she would be late for the first set of prayers. Giggling, she hurried into her habit, and tidied the little room. Many of the Nuns in the corridor gave her smiles, as they all made their way down to the Chapel. Margot was unsure how she would get through the time until her ceremony of profession. |
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Title: Re: Margot Takes Her Vows Post by Vikki on Jan 4th, 2004, 9:44pm Oooh! This looks promising! Please carry on Shander!! :) |
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Title: Re: Margot Takes Her Vows Post by Lesley on Jan 4th, 2004, 11:16pm Just seen this - very interesting - more please Shander! |
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Title: Re: Margot Takes Her Vows Post by Abi on Jan 4th, 2004, 11:42pm Oh yay! This looks promising, I'd like to see some of Margot's time as a nun. |
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Title: Re: Margot Takes Her Vows Post by Loveday on Jan 4th, 2004, 11:48pm yes me too, I always liked her becoming a nun....though I didn't really like her when she was younger, she was so immature! |
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Title: Re: Margot Takes Her Vows Post by Esmeralda on Jan 5th, 2004, 1:04am I would always have preferred it Margot hadn't become a nun. but I'm interested in seeing what she makes of it. Please carry on. |
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Title: Re: Margot Takes Her Vows Post by KB on Jan 5th, 2004, 1:39am This has excellent potential. Please don't make us wait too long, Shander! |
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Title: Re: Margot Takes Her Vows Post by Shander on Jan 5th, 2004, 6:23pm I wrote a whole new section to this, and then I tried to post it and the computer ate it. So here we go again. Margot sat in her seat in the chapel waited for the Divine Office to start. As she sat there, she remembered how hard it had been not to fidget. And as a postulant, she was constantly seated next to Sister Mary Laurence, who was so perceptive that many of Margot's fellow postulants commented that Sister knew if you so much as blinked, despite the fact that her eyes were always straight ahead. With some the other sisters, Margot had been able to get away with twiddling her thumbs under her scapular, but never with Sister Mary Laurence. Slowly, with several years of practice, Margot was content to sit still and wait the the music to start. Often, when she got back from her work at the hospital, sitting still was a relief, rather than a trial. In the midst of these thoughts the Choir filed in and the Office started. Peace filled Margot as she thought about how right it felt, to be sitting in that chapel, starting her day. |
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Title: Re: Margot Takes Her Vows Post by Vikki on Jan 5th, 2004, 6:28pm Yay! More story! Thank you Shander, please keep going! |
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Title: Re: Margot Takes Her Vows Post by Lesley on Jan 5th, 2004, 6:54pm Thank you Shander - looking forward to more! (BTW Don't type directly onto this if at all possible - save your story on a word doc or similar - otherwise you could lose the lot if the thread gets eaten!) |
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Title: Re: Margot Takes Her Vows Post by Esmeralda on Jan 5th, 2004, 7:05pm Please keep going Shander - and please take Lesley's advice! |
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Title: Re: Margot Takes Her Vows Post by LauraT on Jan 5th, 2004, 7:05pm Oooh! *consider me humming 'a whole new drabble.....every turn a suprise' under my breath!* |
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Title: Re: Margot Takes Her Vows Post by Carolyn P on Jan 5th, 2004, 8:59pm I would very stongly echo the advice to write in word and copy/paste here as the TEM is a very hungry monster. It also makes it easier for you to refer back when writing, and you can write offline. Like the look of this, you seem to have thought a lot about what Margot would face, and the problems she would have. |
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Title: Re: Margot Takes Her Vows Post by KB on Jan 5th, 2004, 11:30pm Just lovely, Shander. I like the way you're showing Margot's character development. |
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Title: Re: Margot Takes Her Vows Post by Chloe on Jan 6th, 2004, 1:09pm This is wonderful, please may we have some more :) |
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Title: Re: Margot Takes Her Vows Post by Shander on Jan 7th, 2004, 4:26pm The Nuns ate breakfast in silence, as a preperation for the strenuous day that they met in their work at the hospital. This day, however, the majority of the sisters would not be going to work. They would be attending the ceremony of profession for Margot Maynard. The ceremony would take place at ten in the morning, and as soon as breakfast was over the nuns hurried to do the daily chores, before moving to prepare the chapel. Margot hurried to the hospital, to attend breifely to her patients before preparing for the ceremony. Many of her patients were eager to give her their good wishes. Margot herself, enjoyed the moments of contact with them, happy to see that many of them were doing better. As Margot returned to the convent, she was stopped by Mother Mary Constance, who asked Margot to come to her office. |
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Title: Re: Margot Takes Her Vows Post by Lesley on Jan 7th, 2004, 6:16pm Thank you Shander - more please! |
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Title: Re: Margot Takes Her Vows Post by Esmeralda on Jan 7th, 2004, 6:36pm Thank you Shander, please keep going - I'm glad that Margo is so happy in her vocation. |
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Title: Re: Margot Takes Her Vows Post by Chloe on Jan 7th, 2004, 8:01pm Thank you for the lastest bit may we have soem more please though. *feels a chant maybe in order soon* |
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Title: Re: Margot Takes Her Vows Post by Susan on Jan 8th, 2004, 12:44am Thank you Shander this is so good can't wait to see what haoppens next - the visit to the office isn't ominous is it? |
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Title: Re: Margot Takes Her Vows Post by KB on Jan 8th, 2004, 4:59am Surely any summons has some sort of ominous overtone! I just hope, though, that one of Margot's family has come to see her! |
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Title: Re: Margot Takes Her Vows Post by Chloe on Jan 8th, 2004, 12:50pm Pleas may we have some more Shander |
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Title: Re: Margot Takes Her Vows Post by PatMac on Jan 8th, 2004, 1:22pm I will be very disappointed if Joey, at the very least, doesn;t turn up. Can you imagine her missing a wedding? |
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Title: Re: Margot Takes Her Vows Post by Shander on Jan 8th, 2004, 6:18pm Hmmm. Some good suggestions there. I hadn't though about killing someone off until now.... I do think poor Margot has been beat up enough. Between EBD and all of us here, perhaps its time for her to have a story that ends happily. Or not. "Of course, Mother," Margot said, and entered the small office. "I just want to say how happy I am that this day has arrived for you. I know that you struggled a little at first, but you have grown immensly in your time here. I have a gift for you." Mother Mary Constance turned to her desk and took out a small wrapped package. "Open it" she said. Inside, Margot found a rope, similar to the ones that was tied around the waist of the nuns habits. She looked at Reverend Mother, with a questioning look in her eyes. "Your patients at the hospital wanted to give you something special on this day, as did I. The rope is the one that I recieved at my solem profession. The clasp is from the patients at the hospital, who wanted to thank you for the good work that you do as their doctor, and as their friend. I know that you have struggled to get to this place Margot, and I pleased that you have stuck with Christ, who has led you to this place. Now, off you go, to get ready for the ceremony. Sister Mary Robert will come and help you. Sorry, no Joey yet. We'll see how the plot bunnies lead me as I go. This is all for now. |
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Title: Re: Margot Takes Her Vows Post by Rachel on Jan 8th, 2004, 6:23pm Shander, this is a lovely story! It makes a nice change from some of the other drabbles (and yes I know I write some of them before any of you jump down my throat!) Will enjoy reading more when you have it ready for us :) |
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Title: Re: Margot Takes Her Vows Post by Chloe on Jan 8th, 2004, 7:13pm *applauds* Thats so nice Shander, thanks :) |
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Title: Re: Margot Takes Her Vows Post by Lesley on Jan 8th, 2004, 7:44pm That's wonderful - thanks Shander - more please! |
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Title: Re: Margot Takes Her Vows Post by Vikki on Jan 8th, 2004, 9:01pm Thank you Shander! This really does go down a new line for us! Please may we have some more? |
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Title: Re: Margot Takes Her Vows Post by PatMac on Jan 8th, 2004, 9:13pm That is so good. Quite different from anything else on here. If Joey doesn't arrive, I'll never speak to her again! |
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Title: Re: Margot Takes Her Vows Post by Susan on Jan 8th, 2004, 11:37pm Thank you Shander that was beautiful. My ominous was not thankfully realised, I thought Rev Mother was going to say she had to wait another year or something. |
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Title: Re: Margot Takes Her Vows Post by Esmeralda on Jan 9th, 2004, 2:25am Thanks Shander, as others have said, this is something completely diferent, and very refreshing too. More please |
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Title: Re: Margot Takes Her Vows Post by KB on Jan 9th, 2004, 4:30am Good for the Rev. Mother! That was a lovely gesture! |
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Title: Re: Margot Takes Her Vows Post by Rachel on Jan 9th, 2004, 1:46pm Is anybody else picturing the convent from Sound of Music while reading this? |
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Title: Re: Margot Takes Her Vows Post by Katarzyna on Jan 9th, 2004, 1:58pm Yes but then again that's how i tend to view most convents when i read about them! |
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Title: Re: Margot Takes Her Vows Post by Lisa_T on Jan 10th, 2004, 3:10am *grins* Try 'In this House of Brede' for an excellent, and professionally done, fictional treatment of life in a Benedictine convent. It;s really good- one of my favourite books! *tries to remember where I shoved it..oh-er..* |
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Title: Re: Margot Takes Her Vows Post by KB on Jan 10th, 2004, 3:34am on 01/09/04 at 13:46:48, Rachel wrote:
Personally, I'm imagining a school I went to in Germany, which I always thought would have been perfect for a convent. |
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Title: Re: Margot Takes Her Vows Post by Lesley on Jan 10th, 2004, 9:23am Stillllll waiting for more story - it's more than 36 hours since last bit. |
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Title: Re: Margot Takes Her Vows Post by KB on Jan 10th, 2004, 10:52am *hopes we'll get a lovely long bit to make up for all this patience we're using* |
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Title: Re: Margot Takes Her Vows Post by Shander on Jan 11th, 2004, 2:01am Here's some more. Thank you all for your patience. School overtook me, and before I knew where I was it was Saturday, and I had come down with a cold. (Actually, where I am, it still is Saturday, and not that late either) but I slept a lot so I'm feeling better. Margot stood in her room, while Sister Mary Robert put the finishing touches on her attire. She wore the long habit of the professed nun, belted and clasped at the waist with the rope and clasp from Reverend Mother and Margot's friends. Mary Robert took a flat box off the bed, opened it and placed a wreath of flowers on Margot's head. She would wear them until she recieved the veil of the solemly professed nun. Mary Robert handed Margot a letter and said, "Hear dear, this is for you. I must go, but read it, and I will be back in a few minutes to take you to the chapel." "Thank you, Sister" Margot murmured, as she opened the letter. "Dearest Margot," It said. "Although we cannot be with you on this special day, we wanted you to know how proud we are of you, and how much we love you. We are so pleased that you have reached this day. We pray for you always. Please find enclosed a small something to wear on this, to remind you of us." Margot glanced in the envelope and found a small medal of Mary. She looked at it wonderingly for a minute, and then returned to her letter. "Your brother, sisters, aunts uncles, cousins and friends, join in sending you their best wishes and love. "Blessing and God keep you "Papa and Mamma" Margot turned back to the envelope and took out the small medal. She turned it over in her fingers, as she thought about the life she was leaving behind. Although Margot would miss them, she had no regrets. She fastned the medals chain around her neck, tucked it under her robes. She was glad to know that her parents prayers were with her on this day. Minutes later, Sister Mary Robert returned to escort Margot to the chapel. Margot took her place in the procession, and knelt before the bishop to take her vows, and recieve her veil. The priest gave his sermon and talked about the calling that Margot was entering into. After recessing, the nuns, the priest, and the many friends that had come to see the party went down to the refectory for a delicious meal, and a wonderful cake and to congratulate Margot, now Sister Mary Damian. As she retired to her cell that night, she felt a contentedness, knowing was finally where she belonged. The End Thank you for reading. I think Damian is the patron saint of doctors and surgeons, but the web was a little sketchy on that. If anyone knows for certain, and want to let me know, I can change it. . |
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Title: Re: Margot Takes Her Vows Post by Rachel on Jan 11th, 2004, 2:18am That was lovely Shander - just the right antidote to all the mayhem on the other threads. It certainly is a very calm tale, simple yet moving. Hope we see more from you in the near future! (Hope your cold goes away soon!) |
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Title: Re: Margot Takes Her Vows Post by KB on Jan 11th, 2004, 6:12am Wonderful, Shander. Thank you so much for this calm, thought-filled piece. Superb writing. |
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Title: Re: Margot Takes Her Vows Post by Lesley on Jan 11th, 2004, 9:19am Thank you Shander - a lovely little insight into Margot's future - please post it on the fiction page in it's entirety. BTW where are you from? For it to still have been Saturday when you posted the last bit you must be somewhere on the American continents - North or South. |
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Title: Re: Margot Takes Her Vows Post by PatMac on Jan 11th, 2004, 9:50am Thank you, Shander. that was really good and refreshing. I am sure I can presume to speak for everyone in asking for more from you in the future. |
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Title: Re: Margot Takes Her Vows Post by KB on Jan 11th, 2004, 10:13am on 01/11/04 at 09:50:48, PatMac wrote:
Well, I'm certainly in agreement with you, Pat! |
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Title: Re: Margot Takes Her Vows Post by Pat on Jan 11th, 2004, 10:25am Joining in the congrats. LEt your PBs whisper to you Shander. That was wonderful writing, and I'm looking forward to lots more. |
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Title: Re: Margot Takes Her Vows Post by Esmeralda on Jan 11th, 2004, 1:18pm Thank you Shander, that was really lovely. Hope your cold is better, and please write something else soon. |
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Title: Re: Margot Takes Her Vows Post by Vikki on Jan 11th, 2004, 7:09pm Thank you Shander, that was beautifully written, and very sensitively handled! Hope your cold is better soon! |
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Title: Re: Margot Takes Her Vows Post by Shander on Jan 11th, 2004, 8:12pm I'm very glad everyone enjoyed it. I'm from Canda Lesley. I live in the province of Ontario. |
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Title: Re: Margot Takes Her Vows Post by Lesley on Jan 11th, 2004, 8:20pm Thanks Shander - there are a few other Canadians on-line - they'll be pleased you've joined us! |
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Title: Re: Margot Takes Her Vows Post by Carolyn P on Jan 11th, 2004, 9:47pm Thank-you Shander, that a beautiful short piece. please send it to Liss for the fiction site. Look forward to reading more of your writing. |
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Title: Re: Margot Takes Her Vows Post by Chloe on Jan 11th, 2004, 10:07pm Thank you Shander that was lovely :) |
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Title: Re: Margot Takes Her Vows Post by catherine on Jan 11th, 2004, 10:08pm Thanks, Shander for such a restful story. |
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Title: Re: Margot Takes Her Vows Post by Susan on Jan 12th, 2004, 2:20am Shander that was really lovely. Thank you for writing it. Hope you are feeling better today. |
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Title: Re: Margot Takes Her Vows Post by Jennie on Jan 12th, 2004, 10:06am That was lovely, Shander, I really enjoyed it. BTW, I've checked on the net, the patron saints of doctors are: Cosmas, Damian, ( they were twin brothers), Luke the Apostle, Pantaleon and Raphael the Archangel. |
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Title: Re: Margot Takes Her Vows Post by crashbb on Jan 13th, 2004, 2:06am on 01/11/04 at 20:12:39, Shander wrote:
Where in Ontario are you? I'm in Toronto. Nice to see some more Canucks around. Great story! |
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Title: Re: Margot Takes Her Vows Post by Shander on Jan 13th, 2004, 8:25pm We certainly few and far between in the Chalet School world. I'm living in Kitchener/Waterloo right now, but I grew up in Toronto. Where in the city do you live? |
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Title: Re: Margot Takes Her Vows Post by crashbb on Jan 13th, 2004, 9:28pm I grew up in Etobicoke, but I'm at U of T now and live downtown (Spandina and Bloor). Are you going to U of Waterloo? I realised that I have no idea what your age is, so this might be a very funny question. |
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Title: Re: Margot Takes Her Vows Post by Shander on Jan 14th, 2004, 1:45am I go to Laurier actually. I'm almost 22 and in third year. What about you? Who are the other Canadians on the board? |
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Title: Re: Margot Takes Her Vows Post by Shander on Jan 14th, 2004, 1:45am I go to Laurier actually. I'm almost 22 and in third year. What about you? Who are the other Canadians on the board? |
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Title: Re: Margot Takes Her Vows Post by crashbb on Jan 14th, 2004, 2:19am I'm doing Graduate work at UofT. I'm 27. COS (don't know her real name) is from out West - I think BC but she was talking about lots of snow if November so it can't be Island or Lower Mainland. I think that might be it - someone correct me if I'm wrong. How'd you get into CS? I was introduced by a friend I visited in London when I was 7. |
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Title: Re: Margot Takes Her Vows Post by Shander on Jan 14th, 2004, 11:58pm I was browsing at the World's Biggest Bookstore, probably close to ten years ago, and I came across the School at the Chalet. I read that one and was hooked. I've got 25 or so, but now that Armada has stopped publishing them, I'm not having much luck finding any new ones. It's really cool finding people who have actually heard of them. |
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Title: Re: Margot Takes Her Vows Post by KB on Jan 15th, 2004, 12:05am Um, folks, I'm sorry to seem a little kettle-like, but this isn't really the place for personal chats. I suggest you either start up a profile or else begin a thread in the OT section for Canadians. |
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Title: Re: Margot Takes Her Vows Post by Shander on Jan 15th, 2004, 1:11am Can Do Sorry about that |
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Title: Re: Margot Takes Her Vows Post by KB on Jan 15th, 2004, 1:14am It's okay, but if you leave it here, it's in greater danger of death by yibbling, being eaten by the TEM, or archived. |
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Title: Re: Margot Takes Her Vows Post by crashbb on Jan 15th, 2004, 1:18am Sorry, Pot, we're stopping. *points KB in the direction of the teddy bear/microwave conversation ;D Then ducks for cover. Couldn't resist, KB but the point was taken. Any more story Shander? |
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Title: Re: Margot Takes Her Vows Post by KB on Jan 15th, 2004, 3:25am Don't worry, I appreciate the irony. ;) |
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Title: Re: Margot Takes Her Vows Post by crashbb on Jan 15th, 2004, 3:32am Would Margot have been able to see or speak to her family after taking her vows? *glad KB is mad at her* |
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Title: Re: Margot Takes Her Vows Post by KB on Jan 15th, 2004, 3:36am on 01/15/04 at 03:32:53, crashbb wrote:
Do you mean is or isn't? |
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Title: Re: Margot Takes Her Vows Post by crashbb on Jan 15th, 2004, 3:39am WHOOPS!!! I meant IS NOT. You're not, are you? *wrote to Santa in grade 1 that I had NOT been a good girl that year. Santa said he was sorry to hear that. Now wonder if a parent-teacher interview was called (we wrote the letters in class, so my teacher likely saw it). I hadn't meant to stick in the not in my santa letter - but did mean to stick it in in my post. |
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Title: Re: Margot Takes Her Vows Post by KB on Jan 15th, 2004, 3:42am No, I promise I'm not! :-* |
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Title: Re: Margot Takes Her Vows Post by Kathy_S on Jan 15th, 2004, 5:43am Re/ family visits, it would have depended on the order. Since Margot became a doctor, I doubt she was a cloistered nun, and therefore would probably have visited family now and then between assignments. As far as I know, even cloistered nuns would still have been able to receive visitors, though I'm hardly an expert on this topic. Trying to remember what I've heard from older ex-nuns ... seem to recall stories of specific family visit days. *Edited to note that I am not an ex-nun (vow obedience? no way!). "Older" here just meant that the few people I know of the right era and with first hand knowledge are ex-nuns. |
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Title: Re: Margot Takes Her Vows Post by Shander on Jan 15th, 2004, 7:56pm I ran into one order when reasearching this that I think wasn't cloistered, that revieved family visits twice a year. It would be harder if she was working in Africa, but that was my model. I don't really know much, so the order in the story was cobbeled together from bits and pieces I found out on other ones. No more of this story, but I have an idea percolating for a new one. Depending on how much reading for school I have to do, it should be ready in the next week or so. But I'm making no promises. |
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Title: Re: Margot Takes Her Vows Post by Vikki on Jan 15th, 2004, 8:26pm *resolves to try and wait patiently* |
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Title: Re: Margot Takes Her Vows Post by PatMac on Jan 15th, 2004, 8:47pm on 01/15/04 at 20:26:33, Vikki wrote:
We must follow where the prefects lead! |
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Title: Re: Margot Takes Her Vows Post by KB on Jan 16th, 2004, 3:07am on 01/15/04 at 20:47:53, PatMac wrote:
*suggests that it would be better for Pat to go her own way, as Prefects are notoriously unreliable, even HGs* ;) |
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Title: Re: Margot Takes Her Vows Post by PatMac on Jan 16th, 2004, 8:54am OK, KB! I will produce that post in evidence eventually! Waiting impatiently for more. |
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Title: Re: Margot Takes Her Vows Post by KB on Jan 16th, 2004, 9:38am Good, good! *pleased to have trained another Junior* |
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