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In the classroom Bernadette prayed that the floor would open so she could fall in it, or if not that, have wings to fly and disappear. Instead her teacher said, "Bernadette, you will stay until you have learned your prayer." It was the teacher's job to teach the children to pray. Bernadette was supposed to have memorized her prayer, that is, say it without looking at the words, but there was so much to do at home, she had not had the time. Mother was ill so she had to milk the cow, feed the baby, sweep the floor, and then at the last minute, run out of the room to school.