—Jesuit motto, attributed to 16th-century Roman Catholic missionary Francis Xavier At age seven, Russ Williams was on the move again. He and five-year-old Harvey had been uprooted once before in their lives and now they were in Toronto, a new city, with a stepfather in place of their father and a new family name, Sovka. Their mother had even changed her first name, from Christine to Nonie, her middle name. The marriage arrangements between the two divorced couples were unusual, in that they comprised a direct exchange between the four partners: while Jerry and Nonie Sovka were raising Russell and Harvey in Scarborough, a Toronto suburb, Jerry’s three children were being looked after in Deep River by their mother, Marilynn. How much distress the upheaval caused the brothers is only a guess, because Williams rarely discussed his family history with anyone, and friends learned not to raise the topic. “It was clear to me when I met him that his parents were divorced and that it wasn’t a happy thing to delve into,”
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