A lot of people are angry these days. These people are not just touchy, but ready to boil over with barely suppressed fury.
Amy Petrie Shaw
By BOB MUDGE
Senior Writer
A high-school student, a good student, went to the wrong door and rang the bell, and a man opened it and shot him in the head.
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Amy Petrie Shaw is interim minister of Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Venice.
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