Between us and you there is a great gulf fixed.

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It becomes as lullingly familiar as a weekly drive to a relative’s house: opening prayers like quick turns though local streets, long freeway stretches of readings, homily and Eucharistic prayers, the quietude of communion and then — thanks be to God — the final blessing, a song and home to pancakes and the Sunday comics.

Not until he and Nettie had almost wept with joy together, not until they had decided that the boy should become a physician, not until they had decided his name should be Harold, not until he had revowed his love ...