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The Catholic Church with its foreshortened American history and tangled puritanical roots was as inviolate to my mother and father as it was to the last-ditch aristocrats of Evelyn Waugh.
Maureen Howard
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Maureen Howard
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: June 28
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