Robert Thornley, a sculptor of abstract stone pieces, led a childhood during which he never knew his father and watched his mother drink herself to the point of hopelessness, and, ultimately, suicide. Thornley had embarked on an early marriage and life of an enlisted man in the Air Force, then a uranium miner in Utah and Montana. From the age of 15, his own drinking was nonstop.
His mining career ended when a co-worker with whom he had traded shifts was crushed by a huge slab of rock and (showing 500 of 1229 characters). |
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