Mar 05 2016
Pat Conroy died yesterday aged 70 after a short battle with pancreatic cancer. His tortured family life and the scenic marshlands of coastal South Carolina served as unending sources of inspiration for his fiction, notably the novels The Great Santini, The Lords of Discipline and The Prince of Tides.
Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.
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