Cry If You Need To

Shirley Ann Parker
4 min readDec 2, 2023

They Walk Among Us

Black-and-white image of a hand writing on a notepad.
Photo by Owen Michael Grech on Unsplash

I am still shaking my head, yet once upon a morning that promised sunshine, the following exchange took place.

Imagine two cups of coffee on an old metal table in perhaps a dingy room, and a yellow, lined notepad in front of the sinewy hand that holds the often-tapping pen. And yes, a single lightbulb likely dangles from the ceiling. Or instead there’s a flickering fluorescent tube…

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Shirley Ann Parker

UK emigrant to USA. Interests: Wildlife, people, mental health, religion. Help me tear down society’s abuses. https://shirleyannparker.medium.com/membership