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Rebecca Ann Gemma with a student in 1981, right before she entered religious life. "I always said if they had kept me in first grade, I'd probably be there today," Gemma said of teaching as a newly professed sister. "I just loved it." (Courtesy of Rebecca Ann Gemma)
Rebecca Ann Gemma with a student in 1981, right before she entered religious life. "I always said if they had kept me in first grade, I'd probably be there today," Gemma said of teaching as a newly professed sister. "I just loved it."