Was I being groomed for some special mission? What possible purpose could an existence like mine serve? When I wasn’t drinking in crappy bars, I was home by myself reading: a life that was achingly lonely, and yet perversely designed to prevent anybody from ever getting close enough to really know me.

King is a graduate of the University of New Hampshire (1977) and Suffolk University Law School (1984). Therese of Lisieux.

Therese of Lisieux. King is a graduate of the University of New Hampshire (1977) and Suffolk University Law School (1984). Raised on the coast of New Hampshire Heather King struggled with alcoholism for many years got sober in 1987 and converted to Catholicism in 1996.