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I happened to see a slightly older friend tonight who was also raised Catholic and works as a criminal defense attorney. (He usually handles career criminals and the occasional murderer.) When I asked him if he recalled ever seeing someone wear a rosary around the neck, he said he had seen it only once. One of his defendants wore a rosary as a necklace to court, presumably to encourage the judge or jury to think of him as a nice Catholic boy who at worst had strayed. (He was acquitted, as it turns out.) Other than that my friend has also never seen a rosary worn as a necklace. Hearing about his client felt strangely coincidental, though, since it resonated with Sentaro's bad-boy role.
I'd prefer it if wearing the rosary proves to be some form of penance as TinyRedLeaf suggested, perhaps for some horrible act in his past. I hope it's not that he killed someone. You'd think if he had that to carry around in his life he wouldn't be so quick to mix it up with the seniors on the roof.
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