Irish Thought for October 4...

Quotations

What was it that made Maggie leave Ireland, forsake her siblings and parents and flee to New York in the 1800s, we never knew.  We yearned to know, because she was the first in a long line of leavers, the matriarch of a clan of men and women who made mysterious and dramatic exits.  But her reason for leaving must have been too awful, too painful, because Maggie was said to be a born storyteller, and that story was the one she would never tell.
  -J.R. Moehringer