"Drew was love, embodied"

27 July 2016: A link in this story about Christopher "Drew" Leinonen's mother's speech tonight at the DNC led me to this lovely tribute to Drew, one of the victims of the Orlando massacre. Written by his childhood friend, Catherine McCarthy, the piece is a masterful testimony to this amazing young man. I remember seeing his mother on the news on Sunday morning, pleading for information about her son, not knowing yet that he was among the dead. Such a tragedy...still so unbelievably sad. But both his mother's speech tonight and his friend's tribute point not just to the good Drew did in his all-too-brief life, but to the good we can continue to do in his name and in the names of the other innocent people lost in Orlando. As his friend writes, quoting Drew, "If not me, who?"