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Article: A story of a Mother's forgiveness.
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- Catholic Insight
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- May 1, 2004
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My mother was born in 1928, in Nice, France, one year before the arrival of the Great Depression. My great-grandfather arrived in New York from Ireland during the Great Potato Famine of the 1840s. As a boy he found a job delivering phone books for ten cents a day. I was told that he was a determined man. He worked hard and made his way all the way up to becoming vice-president of AT&T, New York.
His son--my grandfather, Walter Cahill,--was studying law at Princeton when his father died. Knowing at that point that he would not ever have to work a day in his life, he chose to leave Princeton and moved to Nice, where he lived a rather Epicurean lifestyle and became ...