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US US-kylobm TMC-RG1-A-057-#10
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1962-01-27, HLS Arca de Sardiña to Merton, 'Yesterday while I was in church, after Holy Communion I tried to talk to Our Lord. '
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- 1962 January 27 (Creation)
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2 page(s); Holograph (handwritten) signed letter.
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Evora Arca de Sardiña was born in Cuba, attended high school in New York, and returned to Cuba in 1950. In Cuba, she was involved in social work the poor. When Castro came to power in 1959, she fled to the United States with her husband and her five sons and settled in Miami. Her husband, Eugenio, was part of the CIA-trained anti-Castro assault force captured at the Bay of Pigs. (Source: «Witness to Freedom».)
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First lines: "Yesterday while I was in church, after Holy Communion I tried to talk to Our Lord. Of course I did"...
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- anglų
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to Thomas Merton from: Arca de Sardiña, Evora