100 Word Question of the Day

I wonder if I was a neighbor of the woman whose little boy played with the burners on the stove and started a fire that killed twelve people including my mother or my sister or my baby, would I blame the little boy’s mother, would I want her punished for taking a shower and leaving her little boy to wander the kitchen when she knew he would climb and fiddle with knobs, would I hate her and her boy for surviving, want them to suffer in some hard long way or would I bow my head in grief and relief?

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Bronx Fire: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/nyregion/bronx-fire.html

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