When your correspondent asked her neighbours for a pen, nobody understood English.At the end the colonel issued what was perhaps the most basically American instruction of the lot: he told his audience to rise and greet the total stranger in the neighbouring seat.
Be careful of the total stranger you meet.
It's not exactly commercial investment, it's not exactly a donation, it's just kind of this 0% interest loan that you make in between you and a total stranger around the world.
"I was trying to make the point that I can get a marriage license with a complete and total stranger, the age of one of my grandchildren, who knows nothing about me," Ms. Lambert said.
Worrying about whether your skin has "aged" over the course of the day -- and what total strangers on the street have to say about it -- is frankly, a waste of time.
My curiosity forced me to get up and confront this total stranger.
You want him or she to be a neighbor and not a total stranger.
Still, he wants to serve his country and is convinced that the greatest force for good in today's world is the US military consisting of the bravest men and women who are prepared to fight for the freedom and rights of total strangers the world over.
From the Mayor of DC, officials at the White House, state and national equality organizations, and from friends, relatives, acquaintances, and total strangers around the world who had been touched by Andy's story and his work.
"There has been a tremendous outpouring of support from the community, friends, neighbors and total strangers," the spokesman, Leon Smith, said.
