I Came Home to Find 50 People Holding Candles Outside My House—Then I Learned Why They Were Really There

And it changed all of us.

More people kept arriving.

At first it was dozens.

Then hundreds.

Cars filled neighboring streets.

People stood in yards.

They crowded sidewalks.

Some had driven across the state.

Others had flown in.

Former students arrived carrying pieces of their lives.

A firefighter brought a photograph from high school.

A nurse carried an old essay continue reading …