They really range all over the map. Some people are very distressed, and there's this outpouring of grief. For other people, it's kind of an adventure. It's a mix of these horrible things and these mundane things.

to get these people out of our neighborhoods and hopefully out of our state.

We didn't have to make dinner for a month. Our friends, people we didn't even know, brought over food for us. Another company gave us space in their basement.

At least there, science prevailed.

I've never really been a taker, always a giver, but in this case, I really had the sense that this is what the government is supposed to be there to do.

I am beginning to believe that we know everything, that all history, including the history of each family, is part of us, such that, when we hear any secret revealed, a secret about a grandfather, or an uncle, or a secret about the battle of Dresden in 1945, our lives are made suddenly clearer to us, as the unnatural heaviness of unspoken truth is dispersed. For perhaps we are like stones; our own history and the history of the world embedded in us, we hold a sorrow deep within and cannot weep until that history is sung.