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    faith and the four-leaf clover

    Apr 25, 2019 2 minutes
    BY MARY JEAN McDONOUGH, PORTSMOUTH, RHODE ISLAND
    ILLUSTRATION BY TRACY WALKER

    HELD my Mother’s Day card close as I walked into the house. I’d just returned from a visit to the Mother of God Monastery in West Springfield, Massachusetts, where my daughter Mary was finding her vocation as a contemplative nun. The monastery made a business of creating handmade greeting cards, and this one was

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