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One of the annual exercises the nuns at Christ The King Catholic Grade School in south Minneapolis introduced to kick off the first day of school in the mid-1950s was to have us write about what we did during summer vacation.

If you wrote the truth, you were in trouble.

Always, I wrote that I went to Mass every morning, said the Rosary every evening, washed the dishes, behaved like a saint, and even helped old dames with big purses make it across the street alive.

I was looking for a free nickel, which had purchasing power back then.

Sister Ann Raphael, my sixth grade nun, was on to me.

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