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The Family Weekly: For Survivors of Mass Shootings, There’s No Straight Line to Recovery

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(Emma Gonzalez’ sneaker, on the one year anniversary of the school shooting in Parkland Florida. Mike Segar / Reuters )

This Week in Family

At the tail end of March, three people affected by school shootings died by suicide; two were survivors of the Parkland, Florida, massacre last year, and the third was the father of a student killed in 2012 at Sandy Hook Elementary School. It’s not uncommon for survivors of these horrific events to develop post-traumatic stress disorder, which can exacerbate

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