Email: SisterRaisa@AZSisters.org

In the small city of Fruitland, Maryland, two women arranged to have a child. Having been secretly married on a trip to Europe, Shawanna and Honey Childe were well along in the family way when news came that Honey had been accepted as a Senate page in Washington  DC.  The news was so exciting, in fact, Honey dropped her water right then and there and gave birth to two lovely daughters Julia and Raisa. The senator for whom Honey would be working forced the women to give the two girls up for adoption or he would expose their sinful union and the children would be forcibly removed. Tearfully, Honey and Shawanna agreed. Both girls were adopted by nice families in Arizona. Little Julia went to a nice Gilbert family. Little Raisa was taken in by a family of German immigrants Hoff and Una Brau. Raisa was a ravishing beauty and always garnered a double take when she walked down the street, earnig her the title of Our Lady of Whiplash. In high school, though being a shy and quiet girl, Raisa was very popular with the boys, being as she was a dancer and quite limber. Following high school, Raisa sought work as a dancer and found it. She was quite successful, but very unfulfilled. What she wanted more than anything was to find her birth mother and long lost twin sister. She tried for years, but hit dead end after dead end. Her mother had moved away from DC to join a theatre troupe. Her sister had seemingly just disappeared. Downtrodden and depressed, Raisa decided to raise her own spirits by playing a game of bingo at a local watering hole. Sitting in the bar with her friends, Raisa was drawn to two shiny objects in the bar – one was a statuesque beauty, named FarmaSue Tickle, the other was a shiny nun. Striking up a conversation with the tall gorgeous girl, she discovered that she too had been adopted around the same time she was, and was from a little town in Maryland. Both girls squealed with delight when they discovered that FarmaSue was none other than little Julia. Her adpoted family had changed her name! Curious and a bit annoyed by all the noise, the shiny nun came over to quiet the girls down. When Raisa and FarmaSue told her the story, tears welled up in Sister Honey’s eyes – these were her long-lost little girls! Sister Honey brought the girls to the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence…the rest is history in the making.

Aspirant: September 17, 2008
Postulant: October 15, 2008                                             
Novice: November 19, 2008                                                       
Fully-Professed: May 22, 2009

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