Back in the days when we didn’t have to be afraid of our neighbors if we didn’t know their names, I was befriended in a way I will never forget. My family lived in Gary, Indiana, which is located off the tip of Lake Michigan. Like Chicago, it can be a very windy place at times. Even though I was only in the first grade, I walked to school every morning. It was only a block away from my home, and diagonally across