Author: Meghan Mangrum

I never imagined that at nineteen I would be sitting with three of my best friends, helping two of them write eulogies – for her boyfriend, for his best friend, for our close friend. I never imagined that together we would don black dresses, adjust the boys’ suit collars and walk together into a memorial …

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Originally posted here in The Orlando Sentinel's New Voices column on November 4, 2006. The 3,576 students at University High School lost our innocence Oct. 19, when one of us was stabbed to death on campus. Of course, we are saddened whenever an act of violence occurs elsewhere -- the Amish schoolhouse massacre, the Colorado …

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