Editor:
This is a letter about loving your neighbour.
Until the night of Dec. 16, I didn’t realize the true depth of what that means.
You see, we shared our lives for a few years in the shadow of the drug trade, violence and human trafficking.
We lived in fear.
I often prayed at night that we would be spared the violence. We saw things that are almost unspeakable.
Unknown to each other, we were to one day find out what it means to love your neighbour.
We got to tell our story on Dec. 16.
In every word we heard from each other, we could relate as if we had lived as family under the same roof.
Together we got through the four years of hell on earth and ended up understanding what it really means to care about each other.
Kevin, Michelle, Evy, Bill, Paul and Mike — you have been our neighbours through thick and thin.
You have taught me what it means to share life and to truly care for one another.
John Noakes
Kamloops
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