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Through sports a coach can offer a boy a secret way to sneak up on the mystery that is manhood.
Pat Conroy
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Pat Conroy
Age: 70 †
Born: 1945
Born: October 26
Died: 2016
Died: March 4
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But no one walks out of his family without reprisals: a family is too disciplined an army to offer compassion to its deserters.
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I've always found paranoia to be a perfectly defensible position.
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Carolina beach music, Dupree said, coming up on the porch. The holiest sound on earth.
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