“No matter where you are, Mary, my child, have courage, be brave! It don’t matter what happens, if you’re only strong and have great courage. Don’t forget your own name or your father’s and mother’s. Don’t forget to speak in English. Say your prayers and catechism to yourself each day the way I learned you—God will be listening. Say them again and again…don’t forget, oh, don’t forget! You’re a-goin’ now…God bless you, Mary, my child, God…go…with…you…”
