我曾经拿过枪吗？”我和我见面的那位女士问我。
(Have you ever held a gun before?" the lady whom I was meeting with asked me.No, n,: I siad with a little nervous laugh, feeling a little underqualified for the job. "My family were staunch believers in physical violence, not automatic violence, and we had a Safeway around the corner, so we never really needed to kill anything.)