Karen Kilgariff

Yeah. It was just you go and do the right thing. Yeah. Don't bring it up. Don't make a family tree about it. Don't run around from new relative to new relative. The subject line of this email is that time I was a nun. Karen, Georgia, and the whole team. I was listening to Minnesota 419 and you asked for nun stories. Okay. When? It's just, and it just so happens, I was a nun. Wow.

Yeah. It was just you go and do the right thing. Yeah. Don't bring it up. Don't make a family tree about it. Don't run around from new relative to new relative. The subject line of this email is that time I was a nun. Karen, Georgia, and the whole team. I was listening to Minnesota 419 and you asked for nun stories. Okay. When? It's just, and it just so happens, I was a nun. Wow.

It's my favorite story to pull out at parties to surprise people or if the conversation is getting a little boring, especially because most people wouldn't pin my outgoing tattooed F word saying true crime loving self as the nun type. So cool. I grew up very loosely Catholic. Shout out, Karen. I love all your Catholic references.

It's my favorite story to pull out at parties to surprise people or if the conversation is getting a little boring, especially because most people wouldn't pin my outgoing tattooed F word saying true crime loving self as the nun type. So cool. I grew up very loosely Catholic. Shout out, Karen. I love all your Catholic references.

It's my favorite story to pull out at parties to surprise people or if the conversation is getting a little boring, especially because most people wouldn't pin my outgoing tattooed F word saying true crime loving self as the nun type. So cool. I grew up very loosely Catholic. Shout out, Karen. I love all your Catholic references.

Meaning my parents were raised Catholic but didn't really practice but sent me to Catholic schools. That's rough.

Meaning my parents were raised Catholic but didn't really practice but sent me to Catholic schools. That's rough.

Meaning my parents were raised Catholic but didn't really practice but sent me to Catholic schools. That's rough.

Mixed in with that and some textbook childhood trauma, you know, alcoholic parents, divorce, severe parental mental illness. The kind that gets you lots of points on the ACE scale and many healing years in therapy. Hi. Welcome. Hi. I ended up getting really involved in my charismatic new high school youth group. I could have done a lot of other things as a teenager to act out.

Mixed in with that and some textbook childhood trauma, you know, alcoholic parents, divorce, severe parental mental illness. The kind that gets you lots of points on the ACE scale and many healing years in therapy. Hi. Welcome. Hi. I ended up getting really involved in my charismatic new high school youth group. I could have done a lot of other things as a teenager to act out.

Mixed in with that and some textbook childhood trauma, you know, alcoholic parents, divorce, severe parental mental illness. The kind that gets you lots of points on the ACE scale and many healing years in therapy. Hi. Welcome. Hi. I ended up getting really involved in my charismatic new high school youth group. I could have done a lot of other things as a teenager to act out.

Drugs, alcohol, boys. No, I chose high control religion. I mean, there's worse things. There is. I mean, but it's funny because on the face you think, well, at least you're being this. At least you're safe or something. Yeah. I got very active in the Catholic faith and a young faith group in the area, and it was all very consuming and in some ways almost cult-like. Okay, so back to the nun part.

Drugs, alcohol, boys. No, I chose high control religion. I mean, there's worse things. There is. I mean, but it's funny because on the face you think, well, at least you're being this. At least you're safe or something. Yeah. I got very active in the Catholic faith and a young faith group in the area, and it was all very consuming and in some ways almost cult-like. Okay, so back to the nun part.

Drugs, alcohol, boys. No, I chose high control religion. I mean, there's worse things. There is. I mean, but it's funny because on the face you think, well, at least you're being this. At least you're safe or something. Yeah. I got very active in the Catholic faith and a young faith group in the area, and it was all very consuming and in some ways almost cult-like. Okay, so back to the nun part.

Usually when I drop that information, I get a ton of questions. Could you have sex? Why did you go? Did you change your name? After years in youth groups and religious settings, I truly believed there was no higher calling than to, quote, live my life for only Jesus. End quote. So I entered the convent at 21 years old. Wow.

Usually when I drop that information, I get a ton of questions. Could you have sex? Why did you go? Did you change your name? After years in youth groups and religious settings, I truly believed there was no higher calling than to, quote, live my life for only Jesus. End quote. So I entered the convent at 21 years old. Wow.

Usually when I drop that information, I get a ton of questions. Could you have sex? Why did you go? Did you change your name? After years in youth groups and religious settings, I truly believed there was no higher calling than to, quote, live my life for only Jesus. End quote. So I entered the convent at 21 years old. Wow.

After about nine months, I decided to leave, which is fairly common in the first couple of years as young women are figuring out if it's truly a good fit. It takes seven to ten years total, depending on the order, to be a fully vowed religious sister in the Catholic Church. About 90% of my days were spent in silence, prayers, and work around the convent.

After about nine months, I decided to leave, which is fairly common in the first couple of years as young women are figuring out if it's truly a good fit. It takes seven to ten years total, depending on the order, to be a fully vowed religious sister in the Catholic Church. About 90% of my days were spent in silence, prayers, and work around the convent.

After about nine months, I decided to leave, which is fairly common in the first couple of years as young women are figuring out if it's truly a good fit. It takes seven to ten years total, depending on the order, to be a fully vowed religious sister in the Catholic Church. About 90% of my days were spent in silence, prayers, and work around the convent.