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Crime

‘I Shouldn’t Be Here’

By Jordan Ritter Conn · The Ringer · March 2017
‘I Shouldn’t Be Here’
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"The shooting at Orlando’s Pulse nightclub claimed 49 lives and altered countless others. Nine months later, the tragedy still shapes three of those most deeply affected: two survivors and the brother of the youngest victim, Akyra Murray. Their names are Tiara, Patience, and Alex, and they are at once isolated by the individual nature of their suffering and deeply drawn to the only other people who remotely understand: each other."

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