An Unlikely Guardian
Mysterious Ways|August/September 2020
I headed out for my daily walk one August morning, but the back road behind my house was muddy. Too muddy for me. At 66, I couldn’t risk slipping. I’ll take the main road today, I thought. That should be safer.
- Sharon Carter
An Unlikely Guardian

The walk from my house to my neighborhood’s entrance and back was three and a half miles, all paved. There weren’t many houses in the area. There wasn’t much of anything. The open, flat land around me was peaceful and quiet.

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