While I Lay in…. – News

Some people simply reveal what they have always been.

My name is Hannah Whitaker, and this happened in a small town outside Columbus, Ohio, where people still waved from front porches and brought casseroles to funerals and liked to pretend evil only lived somewhere else.

It doesn’t.

Sometimes it lives in your parents’ house, under the same roof where your childhood photos still hang in the hallway.

Sometimes it smiles at church on Sunday.