Faint Glow Alights on a Once-Ashen Wall Street

Disaster begins quietly, almost innocently. Maybe we hear faint alarms that danger approaches, but the potential consequences are too shocking for us to accept.

We're out in a boat, and we think, "Whoa. The wind has picked up a little." We're speeding along an interstate, and we think, "That deer over there isn't going to walk into the roadway, is it?"

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