Settlement with the archdiocese was a long time coming for victims

Marie Mielke held her arms out as far as she could reach, her hands open and her fingers spread.

That's how expansive and open to the world she felt as she stood before the bright media cameras in her lawyer's office Thursday among fellow survivors of childhood sex abuse by Minnesota priests.

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