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THE ENDING!!! you have outdone yourself. at my first communion I was brought near to tears because everyone wanted a million pictures and my cheeks hurt from the posed smiles. But generally i think it should be a happy event for girls and also boys too

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That last line. ✨

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Delicately gorgeous and just the right amount of naughty. I'm thinking back to first communions in my family, with the girls and boys dressed up like mini bridal couples - girls all white froth, boys in their first dress suit-and-tie combo. But the boys did get given pale blue silk sashes, pinned with brooches; wrapped in the love of Our Lady, whose mysterious patience and compassion no real human girl will ever achieve. Gender, babes - what a show!

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