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One Boy's Story

'Father M would like to see you in his office'

Rand Richards Cooper

This is a story about a priest I knew, and what he did to me. I was not molested, exactly. But something happened. The setting is a Catholic grade school I’ll call Saint Crispin’s, in the early 1970s. I was not a Catholic, but my parents, displeased with the public schools, sent me anyway. In the seventh grade at Saint C’s I was an outsider, and not only by religion. I li (...)


 

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