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Be Not Afraid The Childlike spiritbravely answered, “Yes,” and was immediately shot.Within days, the international press was proclaimingher a latter-day martyr, and symbol of courage andconviction. Meanwhile those closest to her, while theynever belittled her bravery, maintained that she wasreally an average teen, with ordinary problems andimperfections and weaknesses. As a classmate toldCassie’s mother afterward:People can call Cassie a martyr, but they’re off trackif they think she was this righteous, holy person, andthat all she did was read her Bible. Because she wasn’tlike that. She was just as real as anybody else. With allthe publicity she’s getting – the stories, the T-shirts,the web sites, the buttons, the pins – I think she’d beflipping out. She’s probably up there in heaven rollingher eyes at it all and going oh-my-gosh, because she’dwant to tell everyone who admires her so much that shewasn’t really so different from anybody else.There’s another reason Cassie might roll her eyes – herchildlike faith, which would have surely left her baffledin the face of all the fuss over the meaning of her“martyrdom.” As her mother, Misty, recalls:1