Feeling The Pain

Jeb Phillips passed along this piece from the Baltimore Sun: Paul had been shot in the side of his face, but the freckles of gunpowder on his cheeks were covered with makeup now, and so from certain angles he looked almost exactly the same to those who knew him: an 18-year-old kid with a wild spray of braids and a few thin brushstrokes of beard. The red bandana was missing, but otherwise he wore what he always wore in summertime, jeans and a polo. And his silence - that was typical, too. Paul never felt much like talking.