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Witnessing the deaths of your classmates is an awful experience—many teens who go through such an ordeal need to talk it over it with a counselor or therapist afterward.

“But, then,” Marjorie told a reporter, “we heard screaming so horrible you’d never want to hear it again.” For the next four hours, Marjorie crouched in the classroom, listening to the turmoil in the rest of the building. Fire alarms blared. Her favorite teacher, Coach Sanders, died in the same roomwith her after being shot twice. “Dead bodies don’t look like they do in the movies,” Marjorie realized. She told a reporter from WebMD, “I think with Columbine, people don’t really realize, [the degree of emotional trauma depends on] kind of where you were at the school. If somebody was at the far end of it and ran out of the school right away, I don’t think they were as traumatized as someone who was stuck in the library or the science room or saw someone shot. So I think there were lots of different levels of trauma that occurred with Columbine.”

Gunman on Campus

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