The news about the killing of bin Laden (if that’s what happened) reminded me that I, like many of my friends, had gone retrieving lost souls in those dark days of mid-September, 2011. But mine came complete with an unexpected twist.
Good thing I wrote about it then, because I found, trying to recount the story to a friend, that I couldn’t remember any of the detail. Here is the story, retrieved (so to speak) from my journal of the time, and edited for clarity.