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Gilderoy ago

This brings back childhood memories of my grandmother telling me dark tales of how she was abused by nuns when she was a little girl growing up in Nebraska, circa the early 1900's. (My grandmother was in her 90's when I was 10.) The nuns were German and didn't like my grandmother because she took after her French father and had dark hair. They would lock her in the closet for hours at a time and force her to go alone to the outhouse on dark winter nights. My grandmother, who was a devout Catholic, couldn't abide nuns after her terrible experiences.

Factfinder2 ago

Your grandmother's ghost will find solace in what is to come.

Gilderoy ago

Thank you for that thought. It's surreal reading about this. I haven't thought of my grandmother's anecdotes in many years. She lived with us for a time, and I loved sitting with her and hearing her stories. Her mother was ill for a while, and she and her sister had to live at the convent boarding school. The nuns liked her sister who had blonde hair and was fair-skinned, but they hated my grandmother because she looked French. (My great grand mother was German, and my great grandfather was French.) This was not long after the Franco-Prussian War and the German immigrant nuns in Nebraska had carried old animosities to the New World. I think they were Ursulines, if I'm not mistaken.