came from Ireland. He was looking for a woman and he came down to Father Phelan and he told Father Phelan he was looking for a woman. And Father Phelan went right up to... just a little distance from the Iona church. Well, right on that comer, that’ s where these MacAdams lived. There was, I don’t know how many girls, but anyway this fella asked this girl. And they were married.

He died here quite a few years ago. We were at the wake. And that old lady, she was over in the comer, sitting down crying all the time about this husband. Now there you are. She’d never seen him before but she’d married him and they had a big family and they lived happy as lords.

That’s where the grace of God comes in, don’t you think? I think so.

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