Well...
Thanks.
The answer to your question really depends upon a gifted eleven year old somewhere out there who may be far more than what he/she seems!
LJ had not visited the states often, and found himself uncomfortable in the patriotic zeal which now surrounded him...these were not sanitary hospital walls he was seeing anymore, but graffiti scarred bricks that reminded him of the unhealthy and unhappy US citizenry.
The Bush frenzy was everywhere - flags taped to car windows, draping from storefront windows and reflected in his eyes as he looked up and gazed at the US President on a television monitor watched by an uninsured mother and her ailing child. There dull, stupefied stares spoke volumes. He could almost taste the bitter jingoism building in his mouth, and at that moment he knew what he had to do...
(INSERT MELODRAMATIC MUSIC HERE)
;-)
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