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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.

In this first sequel to "Lead Us Not Into Temptation," Ellen Morrisett makes another play for Father Di Mucci, and he eventually succumbs to her charms. The previous story is supposed to be linked at the top, but only the URL is there at the moment. I've asked the site to make it into a true link.

I've often wondered what priests really thought about while in the confessional booth. It should be obvious that I was raised as a Catholic and I was often on the other side of the wall. However, I hated it and stopped going when I was about eleven - just old enough to have something real to confess. I would tell my parents that I was going there and then just take a walk for a while. That four-week interval was quite common, almost the standard. As Ellen says, either in this part or a later one, if one resolves never to sin again, then why go back so often? There will be sequels soon but I'm not making it into a serial.

Scouting days are over and, despite Molly's predictions, Hank finds himself on a sexually-charged yet confusing date with one of his classmates in the first week of their school term. He still yearns to get back to the unconventional yet comforting presence of his mature lover back in New Jersey.