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The heroine of Claire Luchette’s novel realizes she became a nun to avoid being herself.

Megan Rice, a Catholic sister and peace activist who spent two years in federal prison after breaking into a government security complex to protest nuclear weapons, has died. She was 91.

Rice spent 23 years in West Africa working as a teacher and pastoral guide. It was there that she started hearing about the Plowshares movement for peace.

When she returned to the United States, Rice began her involvement in antinuclear activism.