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Just how Drew Golden and Mitch Johnson became partners is still a mystery. The Goldens live 2 1/2 miles away at 210 Royale Drive, an address that asserts its respectability with a sunflower-painted mailbox and a stone squirrel poised next to a tiny fountain on the front lawn. "The families didn't know each other, and they don't know how the boys know each other," says William Howard, Mitchell's court-appointed attorney. Says Alisha Golden, who used to sit next to Drew (no relation) in English class, "Mitch and Drew were not friends. They didn't hang...
Members of BBCG have gardened in the area--which is owned by candy manufacturer Squirrel Brands--for more than twenty years, according to Rebecca L. Ramsey, a BBCG coordinator...
...Squirrel Brands announced earlier this year that they plan to sell their company and the land on which it is located...
These ideas work, but I think there is a deeper principle here. When we look out of ourselves, when something more than petty concerns is on our minds, cooperation and even unity, to some degree, is possible. The crowds of people I saw squirrel-watching probably had reasons different from mine for their interest, but that doesn't change the fact that all of us, young and grad student, for a split second were united by a common concern. Our divisions come from our self-centeredness. As long as I worry about me and mine, and you worry about...
Look out, and look away from self. That is the lesson of the squirrel. I accept the criticism that what I say might work on paper but not in the real world. Still, I ask, does that lessen its truth...