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On Sunday mornings we hurried home, so mother could cook the dinner. On summer evenings we ambled slowly home, parents chatting, the children forming their first Catholic friendships with their little peers. That was one benefit of the forties virtually car-less society! My mother once mentioned she missed her evening walk home from church with her pals, that was how she got to know them, when she had moved a long way from her roots. Those friendships lasted half a century, until death.