As any truly grand person would do, they’ve forgiven me for making them supporting characters in this story. They’re important to me, each of them in his own way.
“People always get very upset with my not being able to say what we ought to do. I answer using a quote from Voltaire that says ‘What! A ferocious animal has sucked the blood of my family: I tell you to get rid of that beast and you ask me, what shall we put in its place!”’”
Curtis White