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"If you have a high concentration of young adults, I think things like this work well, " says Father Patrick Gray of Christ Church in South Hamilton, Mass.

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Told from here, from this hard bench that is both bed and chair, table and couch, inside walls and bars painted a dark gray like a grim parody of jail, the story has a different ring than it would if I could tell it from the desk in my office.

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