But Mary is not disappointed for she has been thoroughly indoctrinated to believe that sex is only for procreation and she is to be subservient to her husband's desires except during menstrual times and pregnancy. Sean Flanagan has been raised by a father as hard as nails so Sean has no understanding of sharing a life and obviously a virgin, introduces his wife Mary to the marital bed with no finesse nor love.
She is treated like slave labor, but is introduced to a good Irish Catholic man, who is seeking an Irish Catholic wife, and in order free herself from the store, she marries Sean Flanagan. This novel encompasses the life of a Roman Catholic woman, born in Ireland, desiring to enter the convent and whose only ambition is to see God, but instead as a teenager is sent by her father to the U.S.
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