title: The Golden Thread: A Memoir
author:  K. Cates 
description: K. Cates is an award-winning singer/songwriter who earned a Bachelor of Arts in Communications. She is on a lifelong pursuit to inspire others through faith and provoke purpose through adversity. Cates resides in Los Angeles where she working is on a second comedic novel, A Crumb in the World of Cake with her daughter.
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  ## Dedications
  
  
  **Cath:** To my mother, Marjorie, whose love of books and all things Greek has
  been a continuing inspiration to me. Her wide-ranging curiosity, her
  penetrating scholarship and ferociously high standards have given me a healthy
  disrespect for anything second-best.
  
  
  **David:** This is dedicated to my children, Brendan and Melissa, whose
  journey into adulthood makes me proud. Lots of love and best of fortune, guys.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Part One: The Seeress of Delos
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## 1 – Family Life
  
  
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  _‘Neither will the father agree with his children, nor the children with him,
  nor a guest with his host, nor friend with friend… Nor will there be any
  recompense for the oath keeper or for the just man or the righteous; inst