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Today of all days it is important for people to have entertainment as outlets. I am not talking about the “entertainment” that is the news nowadays. I am talking about the entertainment of movies, books, television shows, music and radio.  These pieces of entertainment give us an outlet for an hour, 2 hours, 3 hours, however long we need to feel safe and secure. I found myself watching the Red Sox last night and already this week I have watched more Red Sox than I did all of last year. When every other news station is blaring out one unconfirmed lead after another you become immune and numb to it all. You need a release, something to take you to another world for a little while, while you decompress and return to normalcy.  After the Red Sox won I immediately went to another piece of entertainment – my book of the moment, Masquerade part of the Blue Blood series by Melissa de la Cruz.  It isn’t the most intelligent and thought provoking books in the world but it is a supernatural fantasy book, a perfect place for me to go for an hour when the real world is just much too handle.  When you are engrossed in any of these mediums, you forget about everything except the world and lives you are watching or reading.  That is what happened to me last night and I couldn’t have been happier.  I went to bed feeling refreshed and calm despite what was going on in my favorite city.
But the town will survive. We are resilient and we will fight until we have nothing left.  As our sports teams and people have been saying you “messed” with the wrong city.  We will come together, we will fight together and we will stand together until this is over and even after.  They tried to take away our city and our innocence. What they didn’t realize is that they just made it stronger. 
#BostonStrong


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