Reply #30: I also have one other really queasy reaction

[karynnj]

In the book, the theme appears to be summed up as " Such suffering can lead to a higher purpose. “Like a fractured bone, I have knit back stronger in the broken places,” Brown writes in his book." http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/the-monitors-view/2011/0217/Sen.-Scott-Brown-s-revelation-of-physical-and-sexual-abuse-can-help-others


This seemed all too familiar and unlike anything that Brown, not noted for ever saying anything eloquent has said before. This sounded very like comments that Max Cleland has made at various times.. In fact, Cleland's book written in 1986 was "Strong at the Broken Places."

I know Brown used a ghost writer - the same one who wrote Laura Bush's book, and I wondered if both the ghost writer and Cleland could be quoting a famous statement that I don't know. All I could find using google was that there was a film on recovering from trauma, that has the same name - but it lists Max's book as a source.

(I posted the last two paragraphs as part of a comment on CSM, but wonder if anyone knows if there is some common source. If not, using Max's analogy - which in his case is consistent with his far more remarkable story and the eloquence he has used in speaking of it - is pretty shoddy.)