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Am I going off the reservation?

16 March 2024

9:00 AM

16 March 2024

9:00 AM

The priest said it would be a short service because he wanted to make an important announcement.

After rushing through the Mass so quickly he missed out most of the good bits, he solemnly declared the following: he urgently needed volunteers to say prayers over the bodies.

The builder boyfriend agrees with me, but it is possible that the BB and I have gone mad together

The number of funerals in this small corner of West Cork has now got to the point where one priest cannot handle the arrival of the coffins at the funeral home opposite the church, where, in Irish...

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