Humor heals

What is it in the makeup of a man who would kidnap, rape and bury a little girl alive?

“Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?”

In the press conference following John Couey’s death sentence, Jessica Lunsford’s father, Mark Lunsford, made an impassioned statement.

Throughout the judge’s explicit recounting of the horror and Lunsford’s choked back tears, everyone held a collective breath.

Then, a reporter asked Lunsford: “Mark, it's the question a lot of us think at home, who are watching this around the country, and are afraid to ask, but I’ve got to ask it. You're sitting 20 feet away from the man who savagely murdered your daughter, how do you hold yourself up?

LUNSFORD: “I get between an FBI agent and a detective.”

There was laughter, and everyone released their breath in the light moment.

The human spirit is an amazing thing, isn’t it?