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Be so good. They'll think this later. The writer Ambrose Beers was a notorious cynic and

curmudgeon. He was also fearless and hilarious and a father. At some point in his life were not

clear on the details. He went through a painful split with his wife and the mother of his three

children. Beneath his hard exterior, he was a sensitive man, and although

we don't know what happened, we get the sense that it was an enormous betrayal. Was it infidelity?

Worse? Again, we don't know. Years later, his son Lee was in trouble with one of his own relationships.

Finally, and apparently in desperation, a biographer notes,

Beers talked to his son with more than usual severity and brought him to reason by recounting

some happenings in his own life. What these happenings were is unknown, but when the relation

was over, Lee Beers, shaken, emotional, burst into a friend's room and said,

with intense feeling, my father is a greater man than Christ. He has suffered more than Christ. Surely this

is an exaggeration, but the point stands. Who knows how long Beers had been misunderstood by his

family? Who knows how long he had hidden his pain or his side of things?

None of that mattered to him.

Doing what was right was.

He didn't need to be vindicated.

He didn't need credit.

He didn't need to be appreciated.

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