From: BrendaWriter@yahoo.com   
      
   On 10/19/2014 11:44 AM, William Vetter wrote:   
   > On Sunday, October 19, 2014 5:38:37 AM UTC-4, Jymesion wrote:   
   >> On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 22:44:36 -0400, Brenda Clough   
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   >>> Mmm, then that gives you an opening. The local baron is oppressed by   
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   >>> three older sisters, who boss him unmercifully, drink all his wine, and   
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   >>> spend far too much of the barony's income on fashion. All his   
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   >>> neighboring barons are either viciously ambitious, so that he does not   
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   >>> dare to empower them by handing off a sister in marriage, or already   
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   >>> happily married and so unavailable. What he needs, yes! is a convent.   
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   >>> Essentially a socially allowable way to get his sisters to live   
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   >>> somewhere else. And look! here is a handy foreigner who is anxious to do   
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   >>> business. For the mere founding of an Abbey dedicated to St. Catherine,   
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   >>> sir, you got a deal.   
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   >> Brilliant! I'm sure that scenario could be written very convincingly.   
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   >> Sadly, not by me. I could never make it ring true because my real-life   
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   >> experiences (I had two older sisters) are so very contrary:   
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   >> 1) If they're bossy, how does the baron force them to move into a   
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   >> convent?  Through bribery, coercion, or guile, I can sometimes get a   
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   >> man to do something that wasn't his idea, but I can't imagine making a   
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   >> woman do anything she didn't want to do.   
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   > The Claudian Emperors sent their daughters and sisters into exile for   
   immorality, made them dive for sponges.   
      
   Yes. And remember this is a new convent, not an old one. There is no   
   mother superior, Sister #1 is going to be Mother superior, with the   
   assistance of #s 2 and 3. And you wanted an outlet for those hot pink   
   robes? Here you are.   
      
   Brenda   
      
      
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