I just started reading a new book, The Girl Who Lived Twice: A Lisbeth Salander Novel by David Lagercrantz. Dave and I have read most of the series (the original author died and Lagercrantz is continuing with the characters.) These are sort of detective/mystery/crime stories.....not necessarily ones that would touch my heart.
And then I read a sentence on page 43: "A whole new broken Stockholm had emerged, and in no time at all everyone had got used to it. That was the sad truth." I finished this page and our local news came on. A seven year old girl was going through the drive through with her father at a McDonald's in Chicago. Two men jumped out of another car and started shooting.....over and over and over. She was hit six or seven times and died. Her father is in the hospital.
Indianapolis, Indiana - eight dead
Bryan, Texas - one dead and five wounded
Boulder, Colorado - ten dead
Acworth and Atlanta, Georgia - eight dead
Buffalo, Minnesota - 1 dead and four wounded
Chicago and Evanston, Illinois - five killed and two injured
These are just a few of the shootings/deaths in America since we turned the calendar over to start a new year. Welcome to our reality. I wish I could say this is a "new America"....but it's not and we are all just "used to it".
I don't care about this little girl's father.....if he was a gangster, or did drugs, or was a criminal. I don't give a shit about his back story.
His daughter was seven and now she is dead.
I wonder if she was going to order a Happy Meal.
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