On that day fourteen years ago, our lives changed forever.
I remember sitting on my grandmothers back porch the day they came. I was with my younger sister and the boy from next door. It was the middle of summer and it was the hottest I could remember up until that point. Grandma had told us the last time it was this hot out she was still a teenager hanging around the soda shops with her friends. The day she died, she told me she was sorry that I would never know the kind childhood she had loved. The day she died learned the truth about the world. The world is an unforgivably cruel place but each of us has the power to see its beauty. The shadows may have taken everything from us, but they should have known better. Once a person has nothing left in this world to lose, they have nothing to fear and nothing could be more dangerous.
~L
I remember sitting on my grandmothers back porch the day they came. I was with my younger sister and the boy from next door. It was the middle of summer and it was the hottest I could remember up until that point. Grandma had told us the last time it was this hot out she was still a teenager hanging around the soda shops with her friends. The day she died, she told me she was sorry that I would never know the kind childhood she had loved. The day she died learned the truth about the world. The world is an unforgivably cruel place but each of us has the power to see its beauty. The shadows may have taken everything from us, but they should have known better. Once a person has nothing left in this world to lose, they have nothing to fear and nothing could be more dangerous.
~L