““How could a man with any sense of responsibility do a thing like that?” he exclaimed, his voice rising with righteous anger. “He should be beaten!” Then he caught himself. “May God forgive me for raising my voice, but it’s a husband’s sacred duty to take care of his family.” In Matthew Perkins’s censure of Ben, I found new excuses for hating my husband. Matthew is a man who would never desert his””
![“I think it was this: like most of us, he was carrying a misery in his soul. I don't say it to forgive what he done, [sic] only to say it as true as I can. He was a wrong-minded man, but inside- I swear this is true- he was always that little boy eating that fried-egg sandwich in that dark hallway…” quote by Lee Martin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/90e/lee-martin-30710_dead-end_i-think-it-was-this-like-most-of-us-he-w_1936252.jpg)
