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Professor Armington looked at me with an expression of vague understanding. Poverty, being less obviously a choice than it had been ten years earlier, was no longer fashionable. When it was my turn to ask a question I said, “The Community for Community Non Violence began as an organization protesting against the War in Vietnam. What I am thinking is that this is a tony neighborhood, but it is too dark and foggy for a woman as beautiful as you are to be walking alone.”
She looked down at the sidewalk. Doing that with my fingers, I learned the same about them, my hands, and arms.