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A reader found an error in it, and I found more when I reread the text. Also, it had been created as a stand-alone story, but I needed to make further changes to make it fit with the later "sequel" serial, "Katherine, Renée, and Paul." I think that serial is coming close to a conclusion, although I have to determine exactly what that will be.
This is in an indeterminate place in the timeline of 1995. It takes place mostly in Katherine's mind, and it is a fantasy she has about her real-life co-worker and lover Renée. It struck me that Katherine may have seen "Meet Me in St. Louis," which inspired the turn-of-the-century setting she uses. She especially likes the clothes and the presumed innocence of young girls which she suspects was an illusion even then. Thus it must have been intriguing for her to add a lesbian/bi-sexual angle to the "good girl" world of Esther Smith. She is also aroused by the corporal punishment of young people which was likely more common in those days and is described in more detail in Chapter 10.
"Foolishness in a Child's Heart" is the next sequel after "Resolve Never to Sin Again." Father Chris is getting further off the pious track because he can't counter his young parishioner Ellen. First, he meets her female lover Clara, which goes fairly well because Ellen is discreet about revealing her secrets about both of them. Immediately afterwards, she proposes a kinky role play game to him. He makes a half-hearted attempt to resist, but later that week they enact the whole scene exactly as she had planned it.
In the later summer of 1969, on her initiative, Hank deepens his social and sexual relationship with his new school girlfriend Arlene. Yet he still visits Molly at her house the very next day. He is having trouble with the longer-term consequences of moving from adolescence into the beginnings of being an adult.
The link has been fixed. The title of the previous story is taken from The Lord's Prayer and the title of this one is from The Act of Contrition (of which there are at least a half-dozen versions). I have two further sequels in the works.
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