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Praying nun in a church (symbol photo)
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She still clearly remembers his outstretched arm.
"Come on, take this arm," he said during the retreat.
"You can take it." She hesitated and trembled, says the former nun.
But the father put his arm around her shoulder and said: "I want to love you because you need it." This affection is completely "pure and clean".
“God wants to help you with this, but nobody should know that.
That is our secret."
A secret between a clergyman and a nun.
A secret that should change Momo Eiches life.
The aggressive behavior during the retreat in the mid-1980s deeply disturbed the woman.
When she sat with her fellow sisters in the evening after work in the nursing home, she began to tremble.
"What's the matter with you?" Asked the others.
"I don't know," said Oak.
She didn't dare to talk about the hug during the retreat.
She was afraid that no one would believe her.
And she wondered if that hug was right or wrong.
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