er commitment to social
             issues than her life prior to her conversion. Writes Day of her childhood
             before her conversion, and her early disinterest in church as a child, "I
             do not remember going to church in those years (childhood), but Mary
             Manley, the girl who worked for us, was a Catholic, and she told me years
             afterward that she took me once to Mass and I stood in the pew looking all
             around and she did not take me again" (Day, 19). Day was 18 when she had
             her first religious awakening. She writes, "I became disgustingly, proudly
             pious. I sang hymns with the family next door. I prayed on my knees
             beside the bed. I asked my mother why we
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