The moral order embraces the totality of our duties towards God, towards ourselves, and towards our neighbours.

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[S]he [Edwina, mother of Tennessee Williams] was indeed Amanda [Wingfield, character in Williams' play The Glass Menagerie] in the flesh: a doughty chatterbox from Ohio who adopted the manner of a Southern belle and eschewed both drink and sex to the greatest extent possible.

As Angel suspected, May chewed nails and spit fire when the sheriff released her into her stepmother's custody.