Like many men and women who make egregious and irretrievable mistakes with their own children, she would redeem herself by becoming the perfect grandmother.

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"No one has the patent on human suffering. People hurt in different ways and for different reasons."

- Pat Conroy

Awareness

"Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself."

- Pat Conroy

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"Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide."

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Adversity

"Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey."

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"Walking the streets of Charleston in the late afternoons of August was like walking through gauze or inhaling damaged silk."

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"Family is what makes this season so special."

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