About the Author
Carol Lynn Pearson, author of best-selling titles The Lesson, What Love Is, Girlfriend, You Are the Best!, Fuzzy Red Bathrobe, and Will You Still Be My Daughter? is well known for her autobiography, Goodbye, I Love You, as well as for a variety of plays and musicals. Her poems, now available in the compilation Picture Window, have been widely anthologized and have appeared in Ann Landers' column and in the second volume of Chicken Soup for the Soul. Ms. Pearson is the mother of four grown children and lives in Walnut Creek, California.
Kathleen Peterson has illustrated The Lesson, What Love Is, Will You Still Be My Daughter? and Girlfriend, You Are The Best! She lives in Ephraim, Utah.
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"The man looked within him, and as he reached into his heart, all the weariness and the darkness and the cold went away, and his center filled with something warm that spread and spilled out from his eyes."
