Unconditional Love

A bachelor all his life, Granddaddy Clark (seated in the front) married my grandmother the year I was born. Even though we were separated when I was 10, that early unconditional love has sustained me the rest of my life.

After I went to live with my father and stepmother, Jack, his bachelor brother, moved in the little house where I grew up. They didn't have much use for housework, drank gallons of coffee, and smoked continuously. And they were loved dearly by everyone who knew them.