When I’m asked my favorite book, I often say Jane Austen’s “Sense and Sensibility.” It’s a romantic story and one that takes a timeless soul with patience for the rhythmic verse to read.

But if I’m honest, my favorite is a guilty pleasure: Gillian Flynn’s “Gone Girl” – a tale about the sickening darkness we hide within ourselves and constantly bring out in one another. There’s a line in the beginning where we’re asked, “What are you thinking? Who are you? What have we done to each other? What will we do?”

I’ve had those thoughts far too often lately.

I know I am far from alone as I felt the dread and heaviness of the Colorado school shooting and assassination of Charlie Kirk.

I sat sick with dread over the speculation of the identity of Kirk’s assassin. His death had warranted a blood

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