Like every other reader, I felt devastated on her behalf for the loss of her pregnancy and the son they'd already begun to usher into their hearts and for the assaultive invasion upon their personal tragedy of a law that imposes nothing shy of cruelty to women facing what's already potentially a devastating situation (as hers was).
Her work since, in whatever medium, has never shied away from facing up to the tragedies of modern history.
While she's not quite a major star, she's something only slightly shy of that, her face immediately recognizable to almost anyone with any fluency in popular entertainment over the last two decades and her name familiar to most regular moviegoers.
If you're shy of this amount, you'll face higher monthly mortgage payments and probably have to shell out for mortgage insurance, which makes the whole home buying thing that much more expensive in the end.
And who knows, maybe Gary Lineker, the global Cheese and Onion ambassador, and Branson, shy face of Virgin, are infinitely more persuasive than the hideously persecuted Christopher Jefferies, another name now engulfed by the A-list.
But as the sun sets at the end of another day in Ottash, the shy smiling faces of women and children peer out from under their shelters.
Amid a sea of shy and happy faces of children heading to school on their first day back at school, there's one face that genuinely beams with joy.
A Somali girl's determination to get to school - even if it means taking her little sister too October 2013 - Amid a sea of shy and happy faces of children heading to school on their first day back at school, there's one face that genuinely beams with joy.
Sean Newcomb finished one out shy of a no-hitter when he faced the Dodgers at Sun Trust Park on July 29.
Newcomb had finished one out shy of a no-hitter when he faced the Dodgers here July 29, but the team still had reason for confidence.
