Hello:

I usually don’t write about current events because, I don’t know, aren’t we oversaturated in that stuff already?  But this I had to mention.  What a scary thing to happen to anyone, whether young, female, seventeen, whatever – it’s the stuff horror movies are made of.

But at the same time I draw your attention to this quote from the Vancouver police:

“Chow said he hopes someone will recognize the handwriting, which has two distinctive features — the way the letter “A” is written in an unusually fluid style, and the fact that the exclamation marks are dotted using circles.”

Except for those few classes in grade 9, I’ve certainly never taken any graphology and it would be foolhardy, not to mention callous, to dismiss this girl’s concerns as a joke if the threat is carried out.  Yet at the same time… look at that ‘A.’  Three exclamation points?  Dotted with little circles?  ‘The man who follow’?  Honest to God, if I had to guess, I’d say the note was written by a girl.  Like, an eighteen year-old girl more used to texting than printing – it just looks so juvenile.  Does that really look like the writing of a kidnapper?