Once I was a Nun

<p><strong>Brilliantly captivating moving remarkable story of a young woman's very personal journey to flying solo!</strong><br><strong>Dr M Lincoln Education Consultant.</strong><br><br><strong>​​​​​​​</strong>For so long I did not speak of my former life except to those closest to me. I think some of my reticence came from a fear of people finding it confronting and taking a wide berth of me. But recently I had discovered letters my father had kept from those years. I had written home regularly and as I read them it got me thinking back over those times again.<br><br>I hadn't even finished school when I entered the convent and the time I spent in the close-knit community particularly of the Novitiate had been special.<br><br>These days too with very few nuns around especially ones recognisable in their traditional black habits I thought I'd share my life as a Catholic nun back in the day.<br><br>I hope my story is a glimpse into the life of a young girl from the far North Queensland tropics uprooting her life from living at home to living far away in a convent in Sydney at the end of the sixties. </p>