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To: JF Quinnelly who wrote (17986)	2/25/1999 4:57:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 71178

Yup. But as I said, not a good one. I found out recently the reason why. The only devout relative, my father's mother, actually was Protestant, but converted to Catholic when she married my grandfather. I don't know whether he was devout or not, but he died in 1944, when my Dad was 12. She went to church, but they didn't do all the rituals at home like other Catholics. My mother's family was nominally Catholic, too, but due to the Church somehow forcing the Chippewa tribe to send its children to be educated in the Church. When I was sent to Catholic school, the other kids' moms and dads always went to Church, and did the routine with prayer cards, rosaries, fish on Friday, Lent, Advent candles, and so on. Mine didn't. I tried to learn it like learning a foreign language, but it didn't take in me like it does in people who are immersed in it from birth.