She Said Yes

While returning some books to the library, I noted a book entitled "She Said Yes." Hopeless romantic that I am, I assumed it was a story about some dramatic events culminating in a proposal for marriage.  Curious, I pulled the book by its spine from the shelf and shortly realized that it was no fantastic romance but rather the true life story of Cassie Bernal, the seventeen year old Columbine High School student summarily shot to death in 1999 after being asked if she believed in God.

The thought of my own daughter having to face such prospects moved me to want to read it, but when our 8 year old laid eyes on the book, she was hooked on the story and has been since, even since we arrived at the hockey store 30 minutes ago.

Fifteen minutes ago Evangelina told me, "If I was Cassie's mom, I would tutor Eric [one of the killers] at home."

When I briefly asked her what she meant, she clarified, clearly not knowing he'd killed himself at the end of the massacre.  She wanted to help Eric, to protect him from harm, and to keep the massacre from happening again even though she'd be "freaked out" having him in her home.