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...Godspeed Veronica and Jilian
May the children of both of these women be loved and and supported through the trauma of this experience. In time, may they heal and go on to live the wonderful blessed lives they deserve.
MOO
Yes, so many people affected.
I would add prayers for the Twombly children. They will likely face cruel remarks from other children and will have to come to terms with how their parents, whom they presumably loved and trusted, could do such terrible things.
A woman I knew hired a hit man to kill her husband. It was successful. She was closer to an acquaintance than a friend, but it messed with my head for several years (trying to understand how I could not have seen she would be capable of doing something like that, realizing we can't always see people's true nature and then not trusting people as easily). I can't imagine how children can process something like this.
Veronica's children have both lost their mother (presumably) and will have to deal with their grandmother having done it.
Jilian's children at least have the knowledge that she died helping someone, though they of course have the trauma of losing their mother.
And all of these children, as well as children in the area who are aware of this case, have lost some of their innocence.
Such a senseless, horrible crime.