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Amazing Woman
Carol Connolly
A patron of the arts & second chances
Carol Connolly was a maverick. She was a friend and mentor to everyone she knew — even her enemies. Her courage was that incredible.
The only traditional thing Carol did was raise seven children. Don’t hold it against her if she didn’t attend church every Sunday. She went to every funeral.
I like to think of her as the Suffragette for Lost Causes. Carol was too ferocious to be a saint.
Her ministry was the Here & Now
She lived and breathed social justice.
I lodged with her family during my junior year of high school. I spent the summer sharing her daughter’s double bed.
Why was I there?
I was Homeless
Along with a sister, and my parents. As long as my older siblings stayed in college they had places to stay.
We’d been homeless the summer before, but this time it felt real.
My Dad’s grand job in California disappeared in less than a year. We came back to Minnesota with no place to live.
Family always has to take you in, but what if you don’t have any? You turn to friends.
