Donna Mae Straub

Donna Straub, then known as "Sister Donna," was my neighbor in Milwaukee in 1982, when she was in her 40s. She had just quit being a nun, gotten an apartment, and was excited to have, for the first time, a stereo, a TV, and a car! She was adapting to dressing in regular clothes, and learning to bake bread. Where she had lived in Alaska, they swept the floor with a feather because they did not have a vacuum cleaner!
Donna had been the homecoming queen in her small town in central...