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I Don't Think I'll Ever Lose The Feeling That I Had When I Read 'to Kill A Mockingbird' - Harper Lee Was Going Back Into Her Childhood. I Grew Up In A Real Small Town - Lee's Was In The South, Mine The Northwest - But Small Towns Have A Lot In Common. There Was Such A Revelation In Knowing That A Story Could Be Told Like That.

If Someone's Different From You And It Scares You Or Makes You Mad, That's God Telling You To Take A Closer Look. If You're Scared Or Mad, That's About You, Not About The Person Who Scares You Or Angers You.

...the Magnificent Seven Consisted Of One Swimmer Of Color, A Representative From Each Extreme Of The Educational Spectrum, A Muscle Man, A Giant, A Chameleon, And A One-legged Psychopath. When I Envision Us Walking Seven Abreast Through The Halls Of Cutter High, Decked Out In The Sacred Blue And Gold, My Heart Swells.

I Think The Value In Books Like Mine, And A Great Number By Other Talented Writers, Is In The Ability To Bring Dark Subjects Into The Open Where They Are Not So Dark, Where They Can Be Talked About And Considered By Teens And Adults Alike.

Something About The Joy And Pain Of That Moment, Something About The Excruciating Contrast, Made Me Feel That No Matter What Happens Now, My Life Has Been Worth It. What A Ride.