Keeping Peace

Bonnie Billups leads in tough times.

by Eve Silberman

posted 9/26/2010

A thin, worn-out-looking woman weeps as she embraces her eighteen-year-old son in the security line at Detroit Metro airport. "My baby going! My baby going!" Exasperated but patient, Ryan Richmond hugs his mother back and murmurs, "Mama, calm down. I'll be OK."

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