Being a good girl from the high society of San Francisco, aristocratic parties, yacht trips around the Mediterranean ... and end your days in a cloistered convent. It is the story of

Ann Russell Miller, the American socialite

who died at the age of 92 after a life of luxury (and some excesses) and who decided that the last part of her life wanted to dedicate it to Christian meditation and contemplation.

"The first two thirds of my life I dedicated to the world. The last third I will dedicate to my soul"

was the phrase he addressed to his guests in 1989, when he gave the last great party, with 800 attendees, before hanging up the evening dress and dress habits.

Until then, her life had run along the same lines as any woman of the American upper class.

Daughter of the president of the Southern Pacific Railroad,

she married Richard Kendall Miller

, another wealthy heir to a gas and electric company,

at age 20

.

Together they had 10 children and, like good American aristocrats, they combined la dolce vita with philanthropy.

She alone served on 22 boards of nonprofit organizations at a time.

The charity did not take time to have a

collection of shoes that had nothing to envy to that of Imelda Marcos,

according to one of her children in a statement to the San Francisco Chronicle, or to rub shoulders with the highest spheres of the United States and be personal friend of Nancy Reagan.

Until in 1989, five years after the death of her husband, she decided to leave everything behind.

She entered a Carmelite nunnery in Illinois and dedicated herself to prayer and contemplative life.

Her family could only communicate with her through the

convent's

speakerium

and always separated by a fence, as her son Mark explained in a Twitter thread.

An "unusual" nun because of her past, who exchanged champagne for mass wine, but who, once she had taken the step, never reversed her closure.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

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