



The friends began speaking for about an hour each day over the phone and Skype to get her story on paper and eventually they had enough material for a book. However, DeNeut insisted saying that her memoir would be "very good" and "very important" for others to read. When she was approached by her life-long friend Richard DeNeut some 10 years ago about the possibility of writing a memoir, she feared that she would have neither the time nor the memory to write all "the wonderful things that happened" into a book. "I have used the analogy of falling from a 20 story building because that's what I felt like the first night after I entered," Mother Hart told CNA May 6. Mother Dolores Hart, the woman who left her movie career to become a Benedictine nun, has released a new biography explaining her shift from a rising star in Hollywood to life as a cloistered religious.
