“A happy heart makes the face cheerful, but heartache crushes the spirit.”
Proverbs 15:13
A cruel and abusive father towered over the childhood of Pat Conroy, author of The Great Santini and other popular novels. Pat’s earliest memory was sitting in a high-chair, watching his mother go at his father with a knife while his father laughed and knocked her a…
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