Though I couldn’t see much through the decorative screen, I had known my penitent the moment he stepped in the booth.

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Luckily, he’s already got one in the shape of Zenny Iverson, the gorgeous girl he stole away from a convent (once upon a time). Three days a week, I lead Bible studies, one night a week I assist with the youth group, and every day save for Thursday, I hold office hours for parishioners to visit. And her voice carried the accent-less rush of the city, not the leisurely twang I sometimes heard out here in rural Missouri.

The story itself is about a catholic priest who is our alpha delicious hero who became a priest out of guilt for a crime that a priest committed against his sister. Arranged marriages don't happen in the modern world, so how did the irrepressible Daisy find herself in this fix? So even though her husky laugh echoed in my ears the rest of the day, I firmly and deliberately tamped down the memory of her voice and went on with my duties, the only exception being that I prayed an extra rosary or two for that woman, thinking of her plea.

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I looked down at my hands, the hands that had pulled my oldest sister from a rope after she hung herself in my parents’ garage.

Her voice cracked on the last word, and for the first time since I’d been ordained, I felt the urge to go to the other side of the booth and pull the penitent into my arms. So when the gorgeous, brilliant Zenny Iverson asks me to teach her about sex, I want to say yes, I really do. I hated it from the moment I saw it, something old-fashioned and hulking from the dark days before Vatican II. I fell asleep with the rosary beads clenched in my fist, as if they were an amulet to ward off unwanted thoughts. Now I am not Catholic but I am a Christian, so even though I am not a member of this specific denomination there were some aspects of the story I liked and other I did struggle with at times.