He came to feel that his father had done more to help his mother than hurt her. “He opened up the possibilities of life for [her] and through him she gained strength and independence, as well as the confidence she had so desperately lacked in her family . . . where she had been made to feel helpless and useless and a physical inferior. Through Papa she learned her own worth and that she could get along and make her own friends, even learn another language, become athletic, and make a happy home in another land, alone.” Many
Jack H
