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| | Out There | The business of strangers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) |
 | | In 1987, Shannon Sharpe was a high-school freshman enduring horrific emotional and physical abuse at the hands of her father, Richard Sharpe, whose decades-long reign of terror ended one summer day last year, when he shot to death Shannon’s mother, Karen, at her home in Wenham, as Shannon’s younger siblings slept nearby. |
| | In high school, as Shannon Sharpe no doubt sat in class plagued by terrifying, all-too-fresh memories of abuse at the hands of her own father, I passed her the scalpel, passed the pop quiz, and went about my teenage life. |
| | Without the benefit of time travel, I’ll never be able to return to my sophomore biology class, take my seat next to Shannon Sharpe, and ask her how she is. I won’t be able to bring her to the high-school guidance counselor and urge her to divulge her family’s painful secrets. |
| www.bostonphoenix.com /boston/news_features/out_there/documents/02063821.htm (729 words) |
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