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Mon. June 1956

Dear Mother,
Yesterday I was over at Mission San Jose for the dedication of the new chapel and infirmary. I spent most of the afternoon with Virginia Mary. She told me to send you her love, and to tell you that the sweater is perfect. In tow weeks and so many days, she gets the white [habit?] with which she can wear it. That's part of what she wanted me to tell you. On June 19th she gets the white habit. It's a very special day, the reception into the order. This is the first year that it has ever been open to outsiders, owing to the new chapel which is larger than the old. She only is allowed a limited number of invitations, and is sending you one which is for you and I. She wants very much for you to come. This is second only to final vows in importance, and that's 8 years away. She has always looked on you as the closest thing to a mother, in a lot of ways, that she has. I could tell just how much your being there will mean to her, so please come. Why not let Daddy and Kevin drive down after his graduation and we can stay at Betty and Edward's until the 19th. The ceremony is on the 19th, begins at 9:30 in the morning and lasts most of the day with a big luncheon, etc. It should be very nice, and they have a very beautiful and comfortable new building. We could fly out about 8:00 that night. There are lots of things we could do and see up in the city and on the peninsula in between when I get out and the 19th. The beach should be fine up here, and you