Stephen Colbert, the youngest of ten children, grew up in a vibrant, devout Catholic household where curiosity and debate were embraced. But at just ten years old, his world shattered when his father and two brothers died in a tragic plane crash. The flight was meant to take the boys to boarding school, but it crashed just miles from its destination, leaving Colbert and his mother to navigate a quiet, grief-stricken home forever changed. In the aftermath, grief settled over him not as an outburst, but as a quiet, lasting presence. He withdrew from the world, turning instead to books—especially...
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