Anne Desmond:  

My birthday is coming up, maybe that's why I'm writing after all this time. What do I wonder about? Well, I wonder if the most beautiful girl in our class, the amazing Gerry Gorman, ever found happiness. Or was the price for such violet eyes and raven hair a life of too much attention from the wrong kind of man? Can people ever really forgive and forget, I think about that too. How long did it take for someone to finally put a stop to the abuse and horror of the rectory--I could see it from my room? Or does it all continue, unchanged and protected by people too afraid of the truth to stand up for the victims, the children? I rember that Sister Linus Mary published in The Point, our school newspaper, that I was a member of the NAACP and had gone to hear DR. King speak but then she did nothing to protect me from all the racial slurs and hideous, angry passion she prevoked. I was class president yet she told me she had to honor her vow, what a joke, of "obedience" and ...Expand for more