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Heartbreaking

REUTERS/Michelle McLoughlin

I find this photograph from Sandy Hook almost irrevocably heartbreaking. When I was five years old, my friend across the street, Eric, was the victim of a murder-suicide. He was seven. I'll never forget sitting on the curb with my brother watching the medics wheel the sheet-draped gurney out to the ambulance. I feel what these kids in the photograph are feeling.