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One exchange began with Mary Elizabeth saying, “They’re having a dance tonight at my sodality.”

Before this ladies’ sodality can get down to new business, a Stranger comes racing into the room, hides under the table and breathlessly pants “They’re after me.”

Bones snapped at him, and one of the high school sodality girls whose job it was to keep us in line whacked him on the head.

They were busy: during the week, there were morning masses, evening devotions, sodalities, weddings, funerals and confessions.

Yet she is also interested in notions of sodality and fellow feeling.