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One Nation Under The Gun: Thousands Of Gun Deaths Since Newtown
On the morning of his murder, Feb. 11, Devin Aryal, 9, dressed to the ticking of his race car clock. His collection of stuffed animals, won from those arcade claw games, stared back at him from their perch on his top bunk.
"I love you,” Aryal told her son. “I love you more," he replied.
“He would always win that game,” Aryal said. “It always gave me a good feeling.”
After a 34-year-old stranger with a 9 mm pistol and a backpack full of bullets shot Devin in the head for no apparent reason, Aryal only hears her son in her dreams. She is wrecked by the world she wakes up to, a world without Devin. He has become, for her, a composite of memories, conversation and images.
"I love you,” Aryal told her son. “I love you more," he replied.
“He would always win that game,” Aryal said. “It always gave me a good feeling.”
After a 34-year-old stranger with a 9 mm pistol and a backpack full of bullets shot Devin in the head for no apparent reason, Aryal only hears her son in her dreams. She is wrecked by the world she wakes up to, a world without Devin. He has become, for her, a composite of memories, conversation and images.
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