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Come here, my child.
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Now sit down.
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Reverend Mother, I'm sorry.
I couldn't help myself.
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-The hills were beckoning and before--
-Dear.
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I haven't summoned you for apologies.
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Please let me ask for forgiveness.
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If you'll feel better.
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Yes, you see,
the sky was so blue today. . .
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. . .and everything was so green and
fragrant, I had to be a part of it.
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The Untersberg led me higher like
it wanted me to go through the clouds.
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Suppose darkness had come
and you were lost?
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Mother, I could never be lost
up there.
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That's my mountain.
I was brought up on it.
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It was the mountain that led me
to you.
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When I was a child,
I would come down and climb a tree. . .
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. . .and look in your garden.
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I'd see the sisters at work
and hear them sing.
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Which brings me to another
transgression, Reverend Mother.
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I was singing out there today.
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Only in the abbey do we have rules
about postulants singing.
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I can't stop wherever I am.
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Worse, I can't seem to stop
saying things.
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Everything I think and feel.
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Some call that "honesty. "
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Oh, but it's terrible,
Reverend Mother!
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You know how Sister Berthe makes me
kiss the floor after a disagreement?
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Lately, I kiss the floor
when I see her coming to save time.
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Maria. . .
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. . .when you saw us over the wall
and longed to be with us. . .
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. . .that didn't mean you were prepared
for the way we live here, did it?
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No, Mother, but I pray and I try.
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And I am learning. I really am.
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What is the most important lesson
you have learned here?
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To find out what is the will of God
and do it wholeheartedly.