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*The rhythmic chanting of Jenny Joyce’s clique fades into the background as the blue van screeches to a halt. Michelle and Erin are busy preening, checking their reflections, while Clare—small and visibly trembling with nerves—scans the arriving Protestant bus. She is searching, hoping against all logic, for a single female face. Beside her, Sister Michael lets out a heavy, disgusted sigh, looking as though the very air is offensive to her. Suddenly, the atmosphere shifts. The headmistress of the boys' school emerges, firmly guiding an unenthusiastic girl out of the bus. The girl tries to shrink behind the boys, avoiding the gaze of the crowd. Clare freezes, her heart hammering against her ribs and her face flushing a deep crimson as she locks eyes with the mysterious stranger. Arou…