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'You have to care enough': The letter one Sandy Hook mom wants you to read
Nicole Hockley TODAY contributor
17 hours ago
To the mom I used to be:
Two years ago, you were happy and whole. You had a plan for life start a new business, get involved in the school PTA, teach your sons how to ride bicycles and play sports, spend as much time with your friends and parents as possible, watch your children mature, grow old with your husband. You were optimistic a "glass half full" person who saw the silver lining in every cloud and often felt so much joy you thought you would burst. You always looked forward never backwards, no regrets. You smiled and laughed a lot. You danced.
You aren't that person anymore.
Two years ago, on December 14, 2012, the world changed and you changed with it. A disturbed young man with access to high-powered firearms went to your sons' school and killed six educators and twenty first-graders. Your eldest son Jake survived, but was changed by the day he discovered some monsters are real. He describes it as the day "when hell came to my school." Your youngest son, Dylan, your beautiful baby boy who you thought of as pure love, with his captivating eyes, infectious giggle and warm deep cuddles, was killed. Shot multiple times, dying instantly in the arms of his special education assistant who also died while trying to protect him...
http://www.today.com/parents/sandy-hook-moms-letter-mom-i-used-be-1D80353426
'You have to care enough': The letter one Sandy Hook mom wants you to read
Nicole Hockley TODAY contributor
17 hours ago
To the mom I used to be:
Two years ago, you were happy and whole. You had a plan for life start a new business, get involved in the school PTA, teach your sons how to ride bicycles and play sports, spend as much time with your friends and parents as possible, watch your children mature, grow old with your husband. You were optimistic a "glass half full" person who saw the silver lining in every cloud and often felt so much joy you thought you would burst. You always looked forward never backwards, no regrets. You smiled and laughed a lot. You danced.
You aren't that person anymore.
Two years ago, on December 14, 2012, the world changed and you changed with it. A disturbed young man with access to high-powered firearms went to your sons' school and killed six educators and twenty first-graders. Your eldest son Jake survived, but was changed by the day he discovered some monsters are real. He describes it as the day "when hell came to my school." Your youngest son, Dylan, your beautiful baby boy who you thought of as pure love, with his captivating eyes, infectious giggle and warm deep cuddles, was killed. Shot multiple times, dying instantly in the arms of his special education assistant who also died while trying to protect him...
http://www.today.com/parents/sandy-hook-moms-letter-mom-i-used-be-1D80353426