We Are Not Like Them

by Christine Pride

The only trick of friendship, I think, is to find people that are better than you are—not smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous and more forgiving—and then to appreciate them for what they can teach you, and to try to listen when they tell you something about yourself, no matter how bad—or good—it might be, and to trust them, which is the hardest thing of all. But the best, as well.

Sometimes you just need to be around someone who loved you before you were a fully formed person. It’s like finding your favorite sweatshirt in the back of the closet, the one you forgot why you stopped wearing and once you find it again you sleep in it every night.

Jackie Snyder, who made a name for herself in a Stand Your Ground shooting in Florida. Now she’s developed quite the niche flying around the country advising people who’ve lost children to gun violence. What a world we live in that that has become a full-time job.