[davidboyd] Cool Papa Boyd: No replacing Mom and Dad

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Posted by Cool Papa Boyd:
No replacing Mom and Dad
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   [1]Malanga on Michael Lewis's new book:

     ...a remarkable couple intervenes in (Michael) Oherâs life. Sean
     Tuohy, a former all-American basketball player who parlayed his
     sports fame into a successful business career, is a born-again
     Christian with a daughter in Briarcrest. Sean notices Oher around
     the school wearing the same clothes every day, figures that heâs
     hungry, and arranges to have Oherâs school lunches billed to his
     account. He and his wife, Leigh Anne, see Oher wearing shorts in
     the middle of a snowstorm, and the next day she takes the boy on a
     shopping spree around Memphisâs big and tall menâs shops. Finally,
     when Leigh Anne drives Oher home after a track meet, only to find
     him living in an abandoned trailer and sleeping on an air mattress
     that he must inflate every night, the pair moves him in with them.
     âGod gives people money to see how they will handle it,â Leigh Anne
     explains.

References

   1. http://www.city-journal.org/html/rev2007-02-10sm.html