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“This sucks,” her son said “I want a doughnut I want two doughnuts!”

“Go on, there,” his mom said, and pushed him toward Sampson

“Kind of overkill for a church cafeteria,” said the man who followed her He was in his late twenties, and dressed in baggy jeans, Tiray snorkel jacket

I realized he was talking to me and looked at him, puzzled

“Bulletproof vest?” he said

“Oh,” I said, and shrugged at the body armor beneath my shirt

Saton, DC, Metropolitan Police Department Im a tea in the streets around St Anthony’s Me had been known to take free breakfasts at the school from time to time, so we’d decided to armor up Just in case

I wasn’t telling hister, but he looked the part

“I’et used to the weight since I’ll be running three miles with it on”

“That vest make you hotter or colder today?”

“Warmer Always”

“I need one of them,” he said, and shivered “I’m from Miami, you know? I must have been crazy to want to come on up here”