For Peggy Patton and her six siblings, life during the Depression
in Franklin County, North Carolina, is a hard one lived in extreme
poverty. Somehow they managed to get by...until the night in 1940
when her father falls ill and subsequently suffers a fatal heart
attack. William "Billy" Ray Griffin, Jr., a depression-error baby
himself, is born in Durham, North Carolina, one year earlier than
Peggy. One of four children, his family struggles to keep food on
the table when, in 1945, five years after the death of Richard
Patton, Billy's father, William Sr., also suffers a fatal heart
attack. Their mothers, ill-equipped to work their way out of such
dire circumstances, have only one real alternative at their
disposal: find homes for their children, either with relatives or,
in the case of both Peggy and Billy, at an orphanage. While
initially not the greatest of news, for both Peggy and Billy the
decision will wind up shaping their lives in incredibly positive
ways. Peggy arrives first at the Methodist Orphanage of Raleigh,
North Carolina, at the age of six with her younger sister in tow.
Now receiving three meals a day, her own bed, and an education with
many fellow students and orphans to play with, Peggy quickly begins
to not only appreciate her new home, but to thrive in it. As she
grows older, a new resident she will come to know as Billy moves
into the boys' domitories. By the time they reach high school,
Peggy is a starter for the girls' basketball team and Billy makes
honorary all-conference as a player for the football team. And
together, they make one of the orphanage's cutest couples. But when
Billy graduates a year before her, they can only wonder what the
future has in store. A heartwarming memoir of perserverence, hope
and the extraordinary circumstances that bring us together and tear
us apart, An Exceptional: And the Two Shall Become One will lift
your spirits with a tale that could happen in America.
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