Wings of a Bird

Could reaching out save lives? - by writer Brenda Peterson in the Seattle P-I
... "You know, after he searched for me on Facebook," Charlotte said slowly, "Question Mark friended me,"
"What does this mean ... friended?" I asked.
"You have to give someone your permission to friend you and then you can write back and forth. But his e-mails were really weird. So I just kept an eye on him sitting there in the back of our classroom with his baseball cap pulled over his face. He was so quiet, it was like ... loud. A loner. When the teacher asked him to give an oral report, the guy just got up and walked out of the classroom."
Then Charlotte got another e-mail from a girlfriend who had just filed a restraining order against Question Mark. "I believed he was a stalker, so I deleted him from my Facebook. I unfriended him."
"Did you ever talk to him?" I asked.
...
When Cho Seung-Hui's photo was flashed on the television screen, Charlotte barely recognized him without his baseball cap. "I realized I never really looked at him. Never really saw him at all." She hesitated, her voice dropping. "I feel bad now for never talking to Question Mark. We knew he was weird and stuff, and yeah he did stalk that girl, but it seems like he just really needed a friend." ...