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Sister Ann Hanlon was a woman of great desires and real accomplishments. She adjusted her dreams of doing great things for God to the gradual unfolding of His will for her in the ready-tohand of necessity and circumstance. Her dreams were lofty ones of a life of strict observance and contemplation. Her reality was in the down-to-earth duties of someone of her direct and authoritative nature. The fast pacing of her life suggests the movement which was characteristic of the early sisters, but beneath the movement lay a concept that unified them as religious women, with differences being only those brought about by geography, the demands of the times, and, as in the life of Sister Ann Hanlon, whatever her charism called for at each juncture.