“The first thing I want to say is that he, he….I can’t say his name. But, the shooter...He sat in his car before coming into the party, and he read the instructions on how to work the gun he bought the day before.”
Bella has to run, she has to run because she is filled with grief and sorrow, her running is her crying and her praying and screaming. It’s her way of doing something when she doesn’t know what to do.
“I just keep running on those hot roads because I don’t know if my country will protect me and my rights, as a female, as a person who wants to be safe from violence. It has not shown me that it will protect me, from males more powerful than me, from people who hate and intend to do harm. It has shown me that I am less than, that I am not worth being protected. It has shown recklessness with my well-being. So I run in the heat and I sweat and I push myself to persevere”
Bella’s journey from Seattle to Washington D.C. is her way to deal with one evening that changed her life forever. It is a story of redemption, of family, friends, and strangers that show up in your life to support you and help you tell your story.
This is a powerful, moving story. You will cry with Bella, you will feel her pain, her grief, her anger and will be moved to do something to change your own story or the world's story.
Ms. Galan
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