That's more honor and decency than I would have expected from him, given his public face. So definitely there is that. But that everything can be compartmented like that - my personal life nothing like my public life, my public life making everything worse for people like I know in my private life... that's what I mean.
I TOTALLY understand what you're saying. If, by strange odds, I hadn't known him and his family, I would detest him. Orson Card put it this way: тАЬWhen you really know somebody, you canтАЩt hate them. Or maybe itтАЩs just that you canтАЩt really know them until you stop hating them.тАЭ
Or perhaps he was jut another southern hypocrite. There's no hypocrisy like southern hypocrisy.
The fact that he apparently loved her, encouraged her to pursue her education, and stayed in close touch with her means something to me.
That's more honor and decency than I would have expected from him, given his public face. So definitely there is that. But that everything can be compartmented like that - my personal life nothing like my public life, my public life making everything worse for people like I know in my private life... that's what I mean.
I TOTALLY understand what you're saying. If, by strange odds, I hadn't known him and his family, I would detest him. Orson Card put it this way: тАЬWhen you really know somebody, you canтАЩt hate them. Or maybe itтАЩs just that you canтАЩt really know them until you stop hating them.тАЭ