Word: leitch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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More than a century after Charles Dickens' pageant of nameless benefactors, twists of narrative, and startling revelations, Journalist David Leitch, 45, appears with a document that ratifies the conventions of the Victorian novel. In the first volume of his autobiography, God Stand Up for Bastards (1973), Leitch recalled his adoptive parents and the mysterious couple who secretly and illegally relinquished their nine-day-old infant. "This title might seem like a calculated insult to my mother," he began. "In a way it is. But I have a sneaking hunch--and hope--that hard words may entice...
...lure worked. After decades of silence, Leitch arranged to meet a reader named Truda, in Liverpool: "Recognition was total, instantaneous. Her expression revealed a moment of fear so acute it was like a pain." Like many other adopted children, her son had his own fears. Were his own flaws environmental, or were they "symbolic perhaps of a greater human carelessness which would forever tie me to my mother's defection...
...Leitch candidly describes his dilemma, and sadly recounts the ironies of his ruined marriage: by the time he unearths the most persuasive evidence of his origins, his wife and young son have gone 12,000 miles away to Australia. In 1981, seven years after Truda surfaced, he receives a phone call. The speaker is a woman named Margaret, who informs him that his mother is dead. She is, it turns out, Leitch's elusive sister. The siblings meet, joyously ransack memories and make the most astonishing discovery of all: there is yet a younger sister, Linda Elizabeth. She has been...
...first overtime period featured Harvard and Bowdoin exchanging shots while goal-keepers Judge and Leitch exchanged saves. And so after 10 minutes of additional play, nothing was resolved...
...first half, as both squads seemed to have difficulty settling down, but Harvard started the second stanza by applying all sorts of pressure on the Polar Bear net. About 15 minutes into the period, Crimson striker Kelly Landry, open in front of the goal slammed a bullet over Leitch's head. The Bowdoin netminder jumped up, fumbled with the ball and just as it seemed that the Crimson had scored, she recovered the rebound...