on her way. Laura Vicuña was originally from Chile but she migrated with her mother and younger sister to Argentina. There she became a boarder-student at the school of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians.
Hers was a short life so it is quite an invitation to take seriously my Christian faith. She found the reason for her life and she was faithful to it at the cost of her own life.
For today Laura's gift to me is the call to take my choices seriously. In a society where there is a seeming allergy to long-term decisions, where we always want to have our options open indefinitely, or where we always bail out of commitments by resorting to our so-called rights, this adolescent puts me to shame.
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