I did as my friend asked me to do and this story is the result.

VOA: special.2009.08.29

"Magnolia is wonderful. The first time I went I got a red velvet and a dark chocolate with mocha frosting and split it with my best friend.

VOA: special.2010.04.12

My friend Call and I started visiting Hiram Wallace.

VOA: special.2009.02.14

And you're trying to deal with, 'Oh,my gosh,there's the war, and this friend of our family has been killed,' or 'Do I want to go to the prom?'" And then, walking with my Marine father, wounded Marine, that's why he wasn't active duty, walking with him,and here he's a football coach at Cal , so if we go to an athletic event, there would be people painting their signs over in a corner of the parking lot or something and I'd be walking along and I'd be thinking that it was my job to protect my dad from the protesters.

VOA: standard.2010.05.31