{"product_id":"9781946195104","title":"My Nun and Her Husband","description":"I met Sister Thomas Margaret, C.S.J., in 1959 in my first English class at St. Pius X Catholic High School. She was a gifted educator with a love of literature and language. As demanding as Sister was, she also had quite a twinkle in her eye. Under her photograph in our yearbook is written \"Religion, English, Journalism, and Golden Lines,\" our award winning school newspaper. Little did I know decades later, when I acknowledged her in a novel, she would become a friend and more. \"Kate\u003cbr\u003eShilling\" and her husband, Lou, would become family.\u003cbr\u003eCharacteristically, Sister Thomas Margaret had refused to sign my 1963\u003cbr\u003eyearbook. My friend made up for the omission forty-four years later penning the following words.\u003cbr\u003eI wish for you that life be open like a book can be-\u003cbr\u003eWith pages filled with ways to grow and that growing you can sing\u003cbr\u003eThe melody of truth and gentleness,\u003cbr\u003eEver new, ever bright like spring.\u003cbr\u003eI wish for you that winds of change will show the way\u003cbr\u003eThat altering what you are to that which you can be\u003cbr\u003eYour hands will find your pearl beyond all price;\u003cbr\u003eFor then-and only then-your eyes will truly see,\u003cbr\u003eYour mind will really know\u003cbr\u003eThe mystery that springtime blossoms show.\u003cbr\u003eAll the learning out of books amounts to naught\u003cbr\u003eUnless one day your soul can realize\u003cbr\u003eYou've found the love you sought.\u003cbr\u003eLast lesson would I now impart:\u003cbr\u003eTrusting books is good\u003cbr\u003eBut best is trusting heart.\u003cbr\u003eSister's yearbook message to me was well worth the wait. Kate added Milam's\u003cbr\u003eMessage for 2007\u003cbr\u003eOf my students-ALL-\u003cbr\u003eYou are the one I claim\u003cbr\u003eAs friend whose name\u003cbr\u003eI daily bless with love.\u003cbr\u003eProud I am that trusting heart\u003cbr\u003eIs your finest art!","brand":"FuzionPress","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47064126718192,"sku":"9781946195104","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781946195104_p0.jpg?v=1763798080","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781946195104","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}