Benediction (story)

Benediction (story)

"Benediction" is a short story by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald, first published in 1920 in Fitzgerald's short story collection "Flappers and Philosophers". It tells the story of a young girl, Lois, who is on her way to a tryst with her lover, Howard, and stops to meet her much older brother, Kieth [sic] , who is in a seminary and about to become a priest.


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