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A mother's cry in Nashville

A mother's cry in Nashville

March 28, 2023

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Timothy Connor
Mar 28, 2023
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I wasn’t going to write, here, today. But I didn’t sleep well last night, and it’s important to say why.

It was an account I heard, on the radio, of the primal wail of a mother who was reacting to the news that she’d just lost her nine year-old child to the bullets from one of the two assault weapons used in the Covenant school massacre in Nashville yest…

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