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However, the twenty-year-old new mother went about her business in Southie, head held high, just as her mother had taught every child in their family to do on the other side of “misbehavin’,” after first making things right with God. “Sure and there’s shame to be had by us all, but isn’t that why Jesus Himself died on the Cross? That we might have forgiveness and a new beginnin’? Go to confession now, say your Act of Contrition, do your penance, and get on with it. For if you don’t, it will eat you alive, guilt will. No mopin’ about over old business!
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