You met them, and in minutes you felt like you knew them your whole life.

We wanted to go out and help the people, but it was too life-threatening.

People walking on the streets looked dazed; the officers looked dazed. Then we heard gunshots.

They said, don't open your doors for anyone.

I over-scrutinize anyone new entering my life.

To be censored is one sure way of knowing you have been taken dead seriously. It also speaks to the continuing power of the printed word, almost fifteen hundred years after that amazing invention.