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Memory Suite: 2001 – 2002 (Part 14 of 15)

In the Village, we bought a bouquet of lilies and zinnias for my old friend, Sister Eileen. They echoed the flowers blooming in my garden on that summer day one year ago. A gust of wind threatened to snatch the huge bouquet from my hands as it pushed us toward Washington Square. At Eileen’s house,…

Memory Suite: 2001-2002By Carole 08/09/2011 Leave a comment

Memory Suite: 2001 – 2002 (Part 4 of 15)

Sister Eileen witnessed the attacks. Old enough to have been my mother, Eileen Storey (known to me in high school as Sister Marie Joseph) had taught me French. A native New Yorker and a Sister of Charity, she was a genteel woman, a college chaplain who lived in the Village, in a neighborhood of brick…

Memory Suite: 2001-2002By Carole 25/08/2011 Leave a comment