I went to a Sacred Heart school, a combo of a catholic (with nuns and priests and wafers) and episcopalian school for the latter two forms of my high school years. I still get alumni brochures.

Their logo is a pair of hearts: one wrapped in barbed wire, the other stuck through with a sword, both on fire. Then consider that they took young women and made them behaviorally celibate. How does that compute? Very obvious. The stuck is the girl, the barbed is the boy, and shazam you've got a nun. Add some mythology and dysfunction, who knows, some priestly abuse, and you're in business.

Of course, they accumulated a lot of old nuns, and with the fines from pedophilia, the catholics had to sell the building in Albany, and ship the nuns off elsewhere. The school moved.

There was an quiet girl there, braces and ordinary, Dawn C, who disappeared along with her more attractive sister. (This is about age 14-17) Their family was a contributor to the school, PTA, etc. Turned out their father was abusing Dawn and she blew him away with a shotgun one day. I found out about it, though generally I don't think it was explained. She died 2 years later of cancer in jail, I found out later.

Nice.