A woman reflects in church on adopting Catholicism as an act of familial rebellion
- By Sheila McClear for Flash Fridays by Tin House, part of the Guardian Books Network
She was late to the Mass dedicated to her boyfriend’s late mother, who died just two months before her father. Stepping into St. Monica’s, making sure her heels didn’t click too loudly, she saw him — Matt the Agnostic — in the very back pew.
She slid in next to him. “You told me it was on East 81st,” she hissed. “It’s actually on E. 79th.” Her own mother would rather turn around and go home than enter church late.
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