Warnings

The silence of the people is a warning for the king.

~ French Proverb

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When I was a kid, my mom used to say, "Don't run away from home or else a truck driver will pick you up, take you to California, cut you up, and mail you home in a shoebox."

This warning scared me so much that I was terrified of the idea of running away from home. It also instilled in me a horrific fear of truck drivers, the U.S. Postal Service, knives, the state of California, and shoeboxes.