The “Diocese game,” as it was known, was announced a month in advance and ballyhooed on the radio—still more important than TV at the time. Whil... every Priest and nun could go, each church needed a skeleton crew to staff its facilities in the event of an emergency. When Mother Superior announced that Sister Mary Cecile would have to remain in the convent on that day the youngest of the nuns at St. Bart’s was understandably disappointed. She and Sister Kathleen were huge baseball fans. They even. She is strapped into an ornate ceremonial leather seat. The leather is moist upon her naked cheeks. The leather stinks. The master makes her watch what will happen to her in exquisite, filthy detail. She is made to know what must happen to her body and her brain for her impure and wrong behaviour. For hours she sits in her smelly seat, she is made to watch again, again, again. At first she screams, and screams as she watches the treatment she will be given. She begs to be set free. She pleads. The coldness of the surrounding deep ocean had so far spared Madeira of much of the world's global warming. Megan had a private joke with herself that if paradise had a climate, it would be that of Madeira.Porto Santo with its 42 sq km of land was 5.7% of the size of main island of Madeira, and with 1200 residents held 1% of the country's population. Once a plush vacation getaway for Europe's elite, the tiny island was now a fabulously successful year-round agricultural community, for reasons. Then he slammed the door and left. I don't know what I did wrong, but it was my fault he died that night. I told him to leave. I knew he was drunk and he should not be out driving around. I told him to get out of the house and it was my fault he died." Again, tears welled up in her eyes.Her confession angered me. The words seem to just come out of my mouth as if somebody else put them there. My tone was so abrupt she drew back as I spoke, "You are not at fault. The bastard hit you. Look at me,".