Nun of Us Are Friends

Invisibilia by NPR

Sep 23, 202144:41Science & Medicine

It's a basic tenet of friendship that you get to choose your friends. We look at two institutions that took away that choice: convents circa the 1960s and a summer program with unusual rules. What do we lose and what do...

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