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In an essay in Time magazine, James R. Gaines wrote about the tragic murder of six-year-old JonBenet Ramsey, a Little Miss Colorado. Having spent twenty-plus years in the hurly-burly of magazine journalism in New York City, he and his wife had moved to Boulder, Colorado, where life would be slower and their three children could grow up without worrying about having their bicycles hijacked. But the murder in Boulder on that Christmas night was proof that tragedy honors no boundaries and that there is no place forever free of crime or violence. He alluded also to Patricia Neal and Roald Dahl who left Manhattan after their infant son, while riding in a baby carriage, was struck and left brain damaged by a taxi which had run a red light. They moved to a farmhouse thirty miles outside of London, where their daughter, Olivia, died a year later in a measles epidemic. The only place where there will be no violence or crime or sickness or tragedy is in heaven, which Christ has prepared for those who believe in him as the Way, the Truth, and the Life.
-- Guettler
-- Guettler
