When Lloyd Cotton hears that Sheila Barnes is consistently beaten by her daddy, he offers her a room and a job cleaning up around his dairy farm. Despite physical deformity, poverty, and years of abuse, Sheila manages to see the silver lining in every cloud–and her bright spirit touches everyone ...
We’d got a late start that morning, and I decided we would spend the night on the road. I checked the Ayrshires, shoveled them some grain in the trailer and then joined Stoney inside the bar. The place was a dump, sawhorse tables, a few rickety chairs; the floor was so filthy I couldn’t tell whet...