Why can't this priest go back to Los Angeles and leave me a… - Frank McCourt

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Why can't this priest go back to Los Angeles and leave me alone? Why is he taking me to lunch when he should be out there visiting the sick and the dying? That's what priests are for.

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Francis McCourt (August 19, 1930 – July 19, 2009) was an Irish-American teacher and Pulitzer Prize–winning writer. He was the brother of actor and politician Malachy McCourt.

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