Hi, I’m your neighbor. That was my stock phrase going door-to-door asking people to vote in Tuesday’s Proposition 50 election.

People told me I was brave to do it, but I didn’t think it was a big deal. In the last few weeks, as a volunteer working with a civic organization, I walked my neighborhood and knocked on strangers’ doors to encourage them to vote. This isn’t a political piece; it’s about my neighborhood In Monrovia, one of the oldest towns in the San Gabriel Valley and full of community pride.

I knocked on 30 doors. Each time, I was a little apprehensive. Although I introduced myself as a neighbor, most people didn’t know me. The organization prescreened the people I should talk to — those most likely to vote. Not once was the door slammed in my face. All the people I spoke to w

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