Jean Harris
Jean Harris
Jean Struven Harriswas the headmistress of The Madeira School for girls in McLean, Virginia, who made national news in the early 1980s as she was tried and convicted of the murder of her ex-lover, Herman Tarnower, a well-known cardiologist and author of the best-selling book The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet...
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behind hiding nasty sins slippery
Slippery bunch, angels, hiding their nasty little sins behind curtsies and compliments, Bibles and badges.
bachelor loving situation
Loving an old bachelor is always a no-win situation
cottages industry
Overnight I became a cottage industry.
winning going-away bachelors
Loving an old bachelor is always a no-win situation, and you come to terms with that early on, or you go away.
people would-be ugly
It would be ugly to watch people poking sticks at a caged rat. It is uglier still to watch rats poking sticks at a caged person.
angel prison-guards atrocities
The prison guards are capable of committing daily atrocities and obscenities, smiling the smile of the angels all the while.
wanted-to-die wanted private-life
I had led a private life and wanted to die a private death.
thank-you gratitude humility
You learn about gratitude by giving. You learn about humility by receiving, and in the pecking order of human qualities, I'd probably put humility somewhere before gratitude.