[Marlene]

Wearing the mask got us interesting responses from strangers. We found that everyone moved away from us, especially in an elevator. I guess they thought John had something really bad they didn't want to catch.

The funniest was when we were walking behind a mother with her two children. Her son must have been about 3 yrs old and he saw John with his mask on. Must have been pretty scary for him because he started to push his mom and yell hurry up! hurry up! to get away from us. When the mom saw what was causing his distress, she smiled and shook her head and we all laughed.

But the sweetest response was when we walking around the Inner Harbor in Baltimore and a women came up to ask why John wore the mask and ask if we wouldn't mind if she put him on her prayer list.

To this day, the kindness from people we don't even know, is still emotionally overwhelming.