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Heidi

There's a fair a couple towns over this weekend. Yesterday Younger Kidlet met friends there. I dropped him off, Husband picked him up. When they got home Husband was agitated & I could tell he needed to talk. He said, "I don't want to scare you but there were multiple armed state police, guns in hand, searching the pick up area, literally going car to car looking at drivers, looking in the back seat. It was like a movie." Weirdly, it made me feel better about going back as a family tonight.

It's a lot of people. I don't feel safe in crowds anymore. I force myself to do things because I know I enjoy them, but I'm on high alert the entire time. It takes some of the fun out of it. I don't know in years past that they had that type of police presence but knowing the fair is prepared for the worst is reassuring to me.

@Heidiknits If you come over the border, be careful of the state police in Massachusetts. They're not only incompetent, they're dangerous.