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wrote on January 24, 2020
I met Pat Conroy when I was a student at Gardner Webb University in Boiling Springs, NC. He came to speak to our literature class after “The Water is Wide” was published. He got me with his first book and I waited to read every book he wrote with bated breathe. He was so personable and funny. He said he found a town named Frog Level, but had trouble finding Boiling Springs. All his books held me under some kind of spell. I couldn’t put them down. A voice talking to our very hearts silenced forever!
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He always made friendly jokes and he loved mentoring young people...