submitted by Corrine Bayraktaroglu, Yellow Springs, OH

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submitted by Sharon Baker, Lorain, OH

For as long as it takes to read this let your mind be blank allow the images created here to fill your mind close your eyes and look with your heart. We are about to take a most extraordinary ‘journey’. ALL around you is your world your family, your friends you feel comfortable there and don’t feel at all threatened. There is nothing to feel threatened over. It is bright and warm and real. There is not the slightest hint something could go wrong horribly wrong. For out of the blue with NO warning your world is shattered. You are in a state of shock there is just no way for you to process what has happened or to even realize that it did happen. You surely don’t want to admit you don’t know what to believe. Everything is in a shambles and you aren’t sure what is going on!!! Is what you see real or not what IS real. What has happened but you have no way to process it for you are YOUNG you are hardly 2 yrs old. How are you to know or understand? it’s a shock and a horror beyond words you have no way to even express. AFTER what seems forever you finally get up and start weakly wandering around amongst the rubble here. You start thinking of people you knew where did they go?? you CRY for them ..you call for them you cry for them there are MANY other people around but they don’t know you nor what you could be talking about. They don’t understand you..!!! NO one understands and it appears the world around you is FINE everything and everyone in its place. On some level you cant know you realize YOU ARE THE ONLY ONE this has happened to..!! Read more »