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ground and nose while violently shaking her head in refusal. Walt kept his head down and just laughed. “What else could I do?” he said.

When they got home, Walt asked Ginger why she did what she did. She responded with a sly smile, “I’m just a mean kid, Dad.” She told her grandfather about the incident claiming, “Dad let loose a bomb in church.”

The following Sunday Ginger made her first Confession with twenty or so other kids. Father Luis celebrated afterwards with a pizza party for the kids.

Pizza? When I made my first Confession in the 1950s all I got was a bunch of Hail Marys and Our Fathers!