“I first became worried about the bullet in my mother’s head two days after she died,” writer Ryan Nourai begins his piece with. “I was afraid the bullet was going to explode.”
“I did not see Scoggins during the hearing,” he recalls about watching parole proceedings for one of the assailants. “I asked my husband to cover that part of the computer screen with a sticky note. I sometime worried my hand would somehow jump to the mouse and move his face into my view… I wondered if he saw my mom’s eyes in my own. I hope he saw them, blazing and forgiving and half of me.”
What can I say but “Esquire” ?
The ones who “actually do want to take your guns.”
Bring sticky notes, fellas…
