Diddian
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Thank you. That was the EXACT quote replaying itself in my mind the past week in relation to this case.You know how you'll sometimes have a thought tickling the back of your brain but you just can't call it up?
I've had that feeling for a while now, and finally, FINALLY, it's come to me.
Thinking about all the tragedy and wreckage associated with this family, I'm reminded very much of this line from The Great Gatsby:
“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
I was also motivated to reread The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy. And, particularly the chapter in which Conroy first introduces the reader to the wealthy and prominent town attorney, Reece Newberry.
Like RM-III, Conroy was also awarded the Order of the Palmetto.