To the person who found my journal in a downtown bar and wrote some kind advice inside: Thank you for your apt observation. I have been told this before, and have known it myself, but to hear it from someone who has no context for me, except a few pages of writing, was an incredible eye-opener. PS: I laughed out loud when I turned to your picture. —Grateful Stranger
This article appears in Sep 20-26, 2012.