I often post tweets about the 7 years I spent as a screenwriter in Hollywood. Yesterday I mentioned how we often (my family) felt as though we were living in a movie, for instance, when my wife was teaching in LA, she did what Hilary Swank did in "Freedom Writers", she asked her class if any of them had lost a friend to gang violence. Every single one of the kids raised their hand. Moments after tweeting this, I received a reply from the man whose real life stories were used as the basis for the character "Marcus" in the film. Amazing to see how connected we can be.