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When public tragedy overshadows your child's individual identity

My teenage daughter was killed in a school shooting and everyone wants to make her death about gun policy but she was just a kid who loved art and horses and I want her remembered for who she was not how she died.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The parent struggles to protect their child's personal memory from being consumed by political narrative.

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