R/B Mertz
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When a divorce moves young Rebecca Mertz away from rural Pennsylvania and their abusive father, Mertz and their mother find a new life in a conservative Catholic subculture outside of Washington, D.C. There Mertz's adolescence is dominated by fundamentalist Catholicism. Life becomes God, saints, and babies — except, of course, for the showtunes they latch onto, voices that permeate their childhood boundaries, singing about different worlds. Mertz...
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