My heart is breaking for the people of Boston this morning. I know and love the town, and my wife was born at Mass General and learned to walk on the Boston Common.
A few years back, I won a literary award and received it only a few blocks from the site of the Marathon explosions yesterday. The city was unimaginably beautiful and has so many associations for my family.
But this is not about people who visit the city from time to time. It's about the dead and the injured. It's about the wonderful people of a great city. It is about evil, which must be fought without ceasing for all our lives.
Boston is a strong city. I look forward to going back. Today, more than any time in my life, I am a Bostonian. All Americans are.
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