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Tales about, of all things, a naked statue and the catholic school tie, Italian American family roots and that dress his sister made him wear. Buy this book for as a paperback for $9.95Buccino's essays cut close to the edge of humor, humiliation and heartbreak chronicling education by the strictest nuns in the world at a school where the statues of saints were said to dance the Twist if you prayed real hard. A wistful reminiscence of life on the farm with chicken coops and too many cats in what is now at the very least suburbia; and, of course, that dress his sister made him wear.
Tales about, of all things, a naked statue and the catholic school tie, Italian American family roots and that dress his sister made him wear. Buy this book for as a paperback for $9.95Buccino's essays cut close to the edge of humor, humiliation and heartbreak chronicling education by the strictest nuns in the world at a school where the statues of saints were said to dance the Twist if you prayed real hard. A wistful reminiscence of life on the farm with chicken coops and too many cats in what is now at the very least suburbia; and, of course, that dress his sister made him wear.
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