A gay couple in Natick was targeted. Here’s how the neighborhood responded [View all]
By Michael Levenson GLOBE STAFF AUGUST 23, 2016
NATICK Cari and Lauri Ryding always felt welcome on Strawberry Hill Road. Then they came home from vacation and discovered the rainbow flag they had hung after the Orlando massacre had been stolen and their front porch pelted with eggs.
It really sent us reeling, Cari said.
But what happened next reminded the couple why they loved the neighborhood in the first place. On Sunday, a squadron of children on bicycles delivered rainbow flags to house after house.
And one by one, the flags went up, transforming a swath of suburbia more than 40 houses in all into a brilliantly colored declaration of pride and solidarity, displayed on picket fences, garages, doorways, and decks.
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