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December 20, 2012

I’ll always remember your name Victoria Soto.

It’s been months since I’ve written, here or on paper. I have running thoughts, and I always want to write. But writing in peace on a table is a luxury for me right now, and I have had some other priorities in my life. But when the urge to discuss, to spill the emotions to whoever will listen, to expel the mental congestion and the whirling in the chest, the pen and paper are where I like to go.

And so, even though this is a food blog, today I’m writing about Newtown and its people. Sandy Hook and its teachers, like Lauren, whose funeral is today. The parents of those 20 kids and those precious ever-so-little children. Benjamin, Emilie, and the other ones whose names have stuck in my head. I refuse to talk about the shooter. He’s had enough coverage. I will remember Victoria Soto’s name forever. That day and this Christmas, I won’t forget. I’m also writing about the 23 year old Delhi medical student who lies in a hospital today fighting for her life, her internal organs permanently damaged from the brutality of something I can’t even bear to type the words. Therein lies more hate. Misogyny. And of course in the background is always the never-ending religious fervor in the world leading to violence. Your hate is despicable. But I won’t hate your hate. Because I won’t ever be like you.

A message for the evil-doers in this world: You have made me fear guns even more. You have made me see more hate and above all fear the hate in this world. You have made me look at the clock every day since last Friday, more and more relieved as the hands go toward the afternoon hours, eager to pick up my child at 2:45pm. But what I know is this:  you have made me have a fiercer love than ever before. And that fierce love multiplied by hundreds of thousands, no millions of people around the world have already overcome the fear. Love conquers fear. So you will never get us.

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  1. vedakis777@netscape.net says

    September 28, 2015 at 4:51 pm

    Victoria Leigh Soto’s student, Jesse McCord Lewis was the natural child of Neil Frances Heslin and Scarlett Maureen Lewis. Natural Child means a child was born out of wedlock. Lewis is part Cherokee and he is like a man on a horse saving others. Also, Lewis was the cousin of Benjamin, William, and William Temple Franklin.

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  2. V.E.G. says

    December 24, 2013 at 1:59 pm

    Victoria Soto is the cousin of Benjamin Franklin (he did the extemely dangerous experiment of flying a kite with the key on it!). Also to William, and William Temple Franklin.

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  3. Mohit Goyal says

    February 6, 2013 at 2:59 am

    great post Shef.

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  4. amee says

    January 9, 2013 at 11:50 am

    well said.

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  5. Amit Mehta says

    December 21, 2012 at 1:30 am

    December 21st, 2012 : The end of the World.
    I sincerely hope the Mayans are right about the galactic alignment that they talk about and the resulting end of the world, meaning the end of the Human Consciousness (or unconsciousness), the way it is presently!

    Hope with all my heart that we’ve seen the worst that was possible and after today: the last day, there is an upward shift in the human sensibilities, enough to be categorised as human, in the New Conscious World.

    I wish I could say that I was not part of Humanity version ‘PAST’ but that can’t be. I’ll strive to live in a way that would allow me to proudly say, I am part of the New Conscious World, 20 years ahead. Either way, I think, we are responsible.

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