Saturday, March 24, 2007
On anniversary of Capitol Hillkillings, the pain lingers - Seattle P-I
As the city of Seattle prepares for a service remembering the victims of the Capitol Hill shootings a year ago, mourners have come together again, bonded through a single horrific act.
After her son went to a party and never came home, everything else changed. Her husband moved out. She stopped sleeping. She raged at God. But a year later, she still comes here -- her son's room -- to smell his clothes, his things.
On his birthday, she had packed balloons, his favorite sandwich and soda, and pictures to show him; his dog had had puppies. Then she picnicked alone at his gravesite, drenched in grief.
"It feels like it's been two weeks," Sandie Williamson said, weeping. "There's no way it's a year, because I'm hurting so much. He was my life." ...
As the city of Seattle prepares for a service remembering the victims of the Capitol Hill shootings a year ago, mourners have come together again, bonded through a single horrific act.
After her son went to a party and never came home, everything else changed. Her husband moved out. She stopped sleeping. She raged at God. But a year later, she still comes here -- her son's room -- to smell his clothes, his things.
On his birthday, she had packed balloons, his favorite sandwich and soda, and pictures to show him; his dog had had puppies. Then she picnicked alone at his gravesite, drenched in grief.
"It feels like it's been two weeks," Sandie Williamson said, weeping. "There's no way it's a year, because I'm hurting so much. He was my life." ...
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