During the late 1950s and early '60s I liked a comic strip, Mr. Mum, in the Boston Globe newspaper. Mr. Mum was a shy, pudgy man of about 75 years old, who usually wore a trench coat and fedora hat as he walked his little dog on a leash in his middle-class suburban neighborhood. What amused me was him... read full story
"I can't see you anymore — I'm not going to let you hurt me again."