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Show Acting Alone pa g e 125 PART II Chapter Nine "Just think, my dear. If you had entered religious life right after high school as Polly told you, you'd only have three more years to wait until you made your profession and got your official candy can." Simone Stylite reached into her drawer, pulled out her own empty candy can and rapped on it with, her fat knuckle. "Not to mention your special paring knife, personalized with your very own laundry number scratched artistically into the handle." Simone balanced her paring knife on her finger so Shannon could see the handle, then rapped the blade on the can lid. "Nobody but the initiated knows it, but these, my dear, are the real, true and genuine symbols of the Servant Sisters of Saint Willibrord of Perpetual Adoration. The can. The knife. Not these old silver hearts around our necks." Simone flipped her locket like she didn't care about it. She probably did, of course. "They could be your symbols, too," said Polly quietly, smiling but not being unserious. "Just drop out of college and become a postulant." Everybody always got so hyper when Shannon came to visit. Especially during lunch, like right now. They seemed to really warm up over lunch. They acted like they never got hardly any visitors around here at all. They |