I've never really been a taker, always a giver, but in this case, I really had the sense that this is what the government is supposed to be there to do.

They really range all over the map. Some people are very distressed, and there's this outpouring of grief. For other people, it's kind of an adventure. It's a mix of these horrible things and these mundane things.

At least there, science prevailed.

We didn't have to make dinner for a month. Our friends, people we didn't even know, brought over food for us. Another company gave us space in their basement.

to get these people out of our neighborhoods and hopefully out of our state.

Behind him,across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too. But perhaps it was only an echo.