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Not to downplay her commitment, but given she joined immediately after her husband died, perhaps she wasn’t thinking it was going to be for a full third of her
by tw04 5y ago
Not to downplay her commitment, but given she joined immediately after her husband died, perhaps she wasn’t thinking it was going to be for a full third of her life when she started.
- rmk 5y agoNo doubt that is almost certainly true, but if you read the article, you will find that she was intending to become a nun when she fell in love and started a family. It sounds like she practically postponed her dream of becoming a nun and got the family responsibilities over with before heading to the cloister.
- Thorrez 5y ago>On her 61st birthday [...] [s]he told her guests she had devoted her first 30 years of life to herself, the second 30 to her children and that the last third of her life would be dedicated to God. Even if it was just a joke, she probably at least knew it was a possibility.