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behind it. It's a happy day for. So

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that's the first test text message that we got was

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that the school was on lockdown. And then the

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next text message was saying that there was an active

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shooter on campus and that's well I tried to go

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over there to the school but I just couldn't,

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they weren't letting anybody through anywhere. And then I

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got another text message saying to pick up the students

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at the civic center downtown. When did you find

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out that your daughter actually didn't survive? We didn't

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find that out until about 10 o'clock at night.

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I would say 11, 10 around 10 or 11

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o'clock at night. That's when we found out.

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They asked us for DNA and we gave them that

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in about an hour later. They confirmed it for

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us. I'm so sorry And your two sons here

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, she was the youngest of three. Yes.

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Yeah. She was excited for the summer. We're

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going to go to the zoo and maybe travel to

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Illinois to meet, to see some family and stuff

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. But obviously, yeah, after what happened it

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just it just it's not going to happen now.

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It's gonna be hard but we have each other,

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we've got we've got a great support system so we're

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just gonna lean on that. Yeah, the best

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we can. I mean nothing's going to, it's

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always gonna be there. But she's in our hearts

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, she's in our minds that can't be taken away

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from us. You just never would have imagined that

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it would have happened in such a small town like

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this. And it's just unreal. We're just glad

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that we gave her the best life we could while

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she was here. There was never a dull day

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with her. She was so happy, she was

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so freak of life. She was she was like

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positive, she's energetic and like like she was super

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nice. She she wasn't like mean at all.

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She was so well mannered. She would say thank

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you, you're welcome. Yes ma'am. No sir

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