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The Nun pretends to be the true memoir of an 18th-century French nun persuaded to take vows by her mother because she was the product of an affair, is not her legal father's daughter, and is an embarrassment with no hope of a dowry. Vows taken, she says she was forced into it and seeks a way out, but this brings the wrath of a sadistic mother superior down upon her head. Her tribulations go to the other extreme when she is moved to a different convent where the mother superior loves her all too
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