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text-rendering: optimizelegibility; line-height: 1.3 !important;">Grits, Green Beans and the Holy Ghost: Memoirs of a Girl Monk</span> <span class="a-color-secondary a-text-normal a-size-medium" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; color: rgb(85, 85, 85) !important; font-size: 17px !important; line-height: 1.255 !important; font-weight: 400 !important;">Paperback</span> <span class="a-color-secondary a-text-normal a-size-medium" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; color: rgb(85, 85, 85) !important; font-size: 17px !important; line-height: 1.255 !important; font-weight: 400 !important;">– December 2, 2015</span></h1></div><div id="byline" class="feature a-spacing-micro a-section bylineHidden" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 4px !important;">by <span class="author notFaded" data-width="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a class="a-link-normal" href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1?ie=UTF8&text=Carol+J+Poole&search-alias=books&field-author=Carol+J+Poole&sort=relevancerank" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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max-width: 650px;"><iframe id="bookDesc_iframe" class="ap_never_hide" width="100%" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="box-sizing: border-box; height: 88px;"></iframe></div></div></div></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><font size="4" class="">I still have occasional conversations with ex-Order members who either deny or minimize the experiences of abuse and neglect our order children and youth experienced. Now, there are so many examples to choose from, of ruptured families and folks in midlife still healing from their experiences growing up in the Order. For sure there were those who did not have this experience.</font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class="">I will always experience sadness over leaving my 6 month old son in the Student House and not seeing him for a year while I saved the world in India. And soon after he joined us in Bombay, I left him for another 6 weeks as I went to teach and ITI in north India!</font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class=""><span style="color: rgb(20, 24, 35); background-color: rgb(246, 247, 248);" class="">In short, Carol asks: "Who is responsible for my childhood neglect and abuse, and that of my peers?" My answer is: "Those of us who were parents, the Order and Joe Matthew's in particular.</span><font color="#141823" class="">”</font></font></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(20, 24, 35); background-color: rgb(246, 247, 248);" class=""><font size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><div class=""><font size="4" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(246, 247, 248);" class=""><font color="#141823" class="">Metaphorically, Carol responds: "Whether your answer is yes-and-no, or no-and-yes, life itself completely supports your continuation of having hopes and dreams, and invites you to be your mystery, depth and greatness.</font></span><font color="#141823" class="">”</font></font></div><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(20, 24, 35); background-color: rgb(246, 247, 248);" class=""><font size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><div class=""><font size="4" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(246, 247, 248);" class=""><font color="#141823" class="">I just re-read </font></span><span style="color: rgb(20, 24, 35); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Kaye Hayes (Kaze) Gadway</span><span style="background-color: rgb(246, 247, 248);" class=""><font color="#141823" class=""> summer 2000 apology signed by 150 Order parents and adults. "We are brokenhearted about the suffering we allowed and even more sorry that it has taken so long to acknowledge this to you. This is only an opening of what we hope will be an ongoing dialogue. We need to hear your truth. We are ready to listen." So be it.</font></span></font></div><div class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(246, 247, 248);" class=""><font color="#141823" size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><div class=""><font color="#141823" size="4" class=""><span style="background-color: rgb(246, 247, 248);" class="">Although she never lived the O:E, wife Patricia and I are reading </span>this together.</font></div><div class=""><font color="#141823" size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font color="#141823" size="4" class="">Ken Fisher</font></div><font size="4" class=""><br class=""><br class=""></font><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
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