PROLOGUE: NOVEMBER, 1977
Molly O'Brien slid her frail body into the last pew of the Arch Street Church in Boston, Massachusetts. Several members of the congregation gave her critical looks as she knelt down to pray. She was late for Mass, the gospel had already started, and Molly had been told many times in her youth to never arrive after the gospel lesson had begun. Her mother had drilled that into all the O'Brien children at an early age; Mass wouldn't count, in God's eyes, if one missed the gospel.
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