Photographer Mae Ryan interviews the Sisters of The Convent of Mary the Queen, a home for aging nuns in the Bronx

Near Death, Nuns Contemplate the Other Side

Photographer Mae Ryan interviews the Sisters of the Convent of Mary the Queen, a home for aging nuns in Yonkers, N.Y.

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