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by Elisabeth Wright
Associated Press
LITTLETON, Colo. ? Weeks, maybe
months from now, little moments will
remind them of what two misfit boys
armed with very adult weapons stole
from them.
A Kansas farmer won't harvest
wheat with his grandson for the first
summer in 12 years. A best friend won't
be buying a fishing boat with his buddy.
Empty chairs in Bible study. Lighter
grocery sacks and smaller laundry piles.
Unfinished plays and shuttered piano
keyboards.
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For some, after absorbing continuous
media coverage since Tuesday, it was
a wrenching experience just to walk a
few blocks from the heavily damaged
high school. Tim and Donna Weitzel
drove 250 miles from Grand Junction
to attend. Thev left their children, ages
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it is in the discovery of the little absences
? the small holes ? that heartbreak
awaits the friends and families
of the victims of Eric Harris and Dylan
Klebold.
For Columbine football coach Andy
Lowry, it might be next August when
it's time to hand lineman Matt Kechter
his extra-large uniform.
For Kechter's kid brother, it might
be this week, when he steps off the
school bus and finds nobody there to
shoot hoops in the driveway.
"Matt always waited by the mailbox
for his little brother to come home
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ern Slope. Amid Littleton's strip malls
and subdivisions, the Weitzels looked
a little out of place wearing cowboy hats
and ranching coveralls. They said they
didn't know any students at Columbine
or their families, but their reaction to
the violence was common to parents
everywhere.'Tt's something that can
help us personally by coming and seeing
and sharing the hurt and the pain,"
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her new silver drop earrings and
atching twisty necklace to the prom
Ponderosa High School.
In her dreams, she danced with her
lyfriend, John Tomlin. "He treated
e like I was queen of the world," she
urted through tears.
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nted tux ? black with a white vest
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for the service.
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it over the past year, as well as bombaking
materials and weapons in plain
ew in the bedroom of one of the
ad suspects. Later Sunday, the fam2s
of victims Daniel Mauser and KelFleming
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signed by gunman Eric Harris and
dated April 19, one day before the
rampage at Columbine High School.
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It was obtained by the Denver
Rocky Mountain News.
By now its over. If you are reading
this my mission is complete. I
have finished revolutionizing the
neoeupkoric infliction of my internal
terror. Your children who have
ridaculed (sic) me, who have chosen
not to accept me, who have
treated me like lam not worth their '
time are dead. THEY ARE (expletive)
DEAD. Surely you will try
to blame it on the clothes I wear,
the music I listen to, or the way I
choose to present myself? but no.
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as a result of YOUR CHOICES.
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them, to not accept what is different.
YOU ARE IN THE WRONG.
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my own ? but it was your doing.
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YOU DIE. Am I insane? Maybe. Is
it my fault? No. I did not choose
this life, but I have indeed chosen
to exit it. You may think the horror
ends with the bullet in my head
?but you wouldn't be so lucky. All
that I can leave you with to decipher
what more extensive death is
to come is "12Skizto."You have until
April 26th. Goodbye.
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