La Madone Noire Comments

In my family, a convent in Lucerne, Switzerland loomed legend large. It's name is 'La Madone Noire' (the Black Madonna) and according to my mom, it is a 'finishing school' where captious girls, who lied or who wouldn't behave, were sent to live with and be schooled by nuns.

It was, from all reports, a terrible and stern place where there was never any ice cream or bedtime stories and the toys, when there were any, were made of straw.
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