You were apt to go from one extreme to the other, in a truly pious environment; which is why ministers' sons in that day were more less expected to become loose livers when they grew up.
Bruce CattonAbout author
- Author's profession: Historian
- Nationality: american
- Born: October 9, 1899
- Died: August 28, 1978
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