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I was a watchful boy being raised by a father I didn__ admire. In a desperate way, I needed the guidance of someone who could show me another way of becoming a man. It was sometime during the year when I decided I would become the kind of man that Bill Dufford was born to be. I wanted to be the type of man that a whole town could respect and honor and fall in love with__he way Beaufort did when Bill Dufford came to town to teach and shape and turn its children into the best citizens they could be.
Pat Conroy A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life
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I was a watchful boy being raised by a father I didn__ admire. In a desperate way, I needed the guidance of someone who could show me another way of becoming a man. It was sometime during the year when I decided I would become the kind of man that Bill Dufford was born to be. I wanted to be the type of man that a whole town could respect and honor and fall in love with__he way Beaufort did when Bill Dufford came to town to teach and shape and turn its children into the best citizens they could be.
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A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life

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