Snow and sleet fell across the San Francisco Bay area in an unusually late winter storm over the weekend. Two people were killed in a 28-vehicle pileup on a slippery highway just north of the Golden Gate Bridge, authorities said.
Before I'd been to San Francisco this may have been just another story in the press, but now I find myself wondering where this happened and if it was one of the places I visited. You'd think the more people traveled, the smaller the world would actually seem - and that all of us might start to think about people on the other side of the planet as people - not statistics or "the other". And the it might occur to us all that the person or the other side of the fence, or in the next suburb, even if they dress or speak differently or have different religious or cultural beliefs we have more in common than not.
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