Woman turns down lucrative contract to spend her life praying for the poor

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Shelly Pennefather was Villanova’s all-time leading scorer. When she was 25 she had a $200,000 contract to play in Japan. She turned it down. Instead she joined the Monastery of the Poor Clares in Alexandria, Va., one of the strictest religious orders in the world. “I would never choose this for myself,”…
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