the real hero of canton

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/22/opinion/22gup.html

Also be sure to enlarge the letters photographed with the story -- they aren't quoted in the piece and are amazing to read:

We are a family of five, just as poor as can be. We buried two babies in the last four years.

TW rec

I think I forgot to post about this, but the author just replied to my feedback and I remembered the story.

http://hence-the-name.livejournal.com/3705.html

Jack/Ten
Jack/Ianto

Not smutty at all (PG-13). Life is complicated. Lovely, lovely fic. Oddly, someone gets called sunshine in this one too. But that's neither here nor there.