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Sandy Hook Broke Me

Sandy Hook Broke Me

I Was Once An Idealist, Then I Saw What America Truly Was

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Dec 16, 2022
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The victims of the Sandy Hook massacre

When I first saw the news that a mass shooting had occurred in a Connecticut school on December 14, 2012, I was only about 50 miles south, southwest of the school on Long Island. It was my day off and I was doing some Christmas shopping with my mom at Roosevelt Field Mall. I was standing in Macy’s looking at sweate…

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