5/21/2023 0 Comments Pat conroy book south of broad![]() It would be many years before I learned that your fate could scuttle up behind you, touch you with its bloody claws, and when you turn to face the worst, you find it disguised in all innocence and camouflaged as a moving van, an orphanage, and a drug bust south of Broad. ![]() ![]() I was eighteen, with a reputation as a slow starter, so I could not feel the tectonic shift in my fate as my history began to launch of its own volition. Jude’s Orphanage behind the cathedral on Broad Street and the News and Courier recorded that a drug bust had taken place on East Bay Street at the Rutledge- Bennet house. On June 16, 1969, a series of unrelated events occurred: I discovered that my mother once had been a Roman Catholic nun in the Sacred Heart order an Atlas moving van backed into the driveway of a nineteenth- century Charleston single house across the street from ours two orphans arrived at the gates of St. ![]()
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