spent a long time doing an article that ended up on the front page of "the washington post," john woodrow cox. who is he? guest: he is a reporter for "the washington post." he was working on a series of stories about children in the united states who have had experiences with violence. and i believe there were four or five stories in that series. all of them, just really heartbreaking and really beautiful, and the way that i got in contact with john is he wrote a story about a young child here in d.c. whose father had been murdered and he was six or seven. and i read that article while i was out work at the court -- at work at the court and it really hit me because i recognized a lot of myself in the child and i felt very strongly that if i could, i would like to reach out to him and talk to him and pass on some of what i have learned and how to deal with that experience and how to push through. and to let him know there was hope on the other side, so i emailed john and i asked him if he would pass along a letter. childer i wrote for the in the article, and he said sure. i was asking if he co