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When Bill Holman was six, living in rural Oklahoma, his mother took him to Oklahoma City to spend the night with an uncle, she said. Instead she left him in an orphanage, and he never saw her again. He had no idea who his father was now why his mother had left him all during the years he grew up in a series of Oklahoma orphanages and foster homes. Finally a couple in Drumright, Oklahoma, adopted him and gave him the last name that would carry him through a life of accomplishment as among other things the youngest director of the San Francisco Public Library. Now in his eighties, retired and living in Austin, Bill has written the story of his life--The Orphan's Nine Commandments (TCU Press) so titled because orphans leave out the commandment that says to Honor They Parents. |
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