‘If you promise to keep reading, I promise to keep writing’

This week’s column is a set of readers’ responses this 12 months. “Dear Mr. Fountain, I've supposed to write down to you concerning your great column for a while now however by no means ‘did the deed.’ But your column entitled, ‘Freedom I Have Tasted...’ made such an impression on me that I've to let you know the way a lot it moved me, as have a lot of your previous essays. “I do know that as a white lady in America I'd by no means have the ability to sense what life is like for black women and men within the nation we share however nonetheless reside so individually. “But your column jogged my memory