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I will never understand fully how he could do it but i think there is another big component and i think its relevant not only to dylan and his story and this story, but its relevant to all of the world right now. that is the issue of ones ability to dehumanise other people. i look around now in life and i see it occurring all the time. i hear it in politics, i hear it on the news, i hear it when people blame and reduce people down to some element of themselves, forgetting the 99.999% of that hum...

I believe in truth, my belief in what our —— my belief in truth, my belief in what our family was, my belief in who dylan was, everything was torn apart. the person that i thought i was no longer existed. i thought i was a good mum, i thought i had raised responsible kids who were kind and loving and charitable, and everything was gone, everything. my belief in everything was gone. my son, dylan, who was 17 years old, and his friend eric who was 18 went to columbine high school with the inte...

And to shut it down and make it about my loss. and it has really helped me to be with connie. it helps me stay grounded to the magnitude of what dylan did. my dad was a great man. society felt the need to betray him as this perfect human being. people had to have this dichotomous view of eric and dylan versus the victims, almost like it was this win—lose thing. lets evaluate the circumstances. what prompted nicholas to get a gun in order to bring it to school to kill another human being? we go...

And for the first time, i got it. i saw that it was planned. i saw video tapes that they had made. i saw dylan in a way that i had never seen him before. they were talking about what they were going to do. it showed him with weapons. it was horrifying to see him in that mode. i had been grieving so much for this lost, precious child, and remembering who he was, and that was the point that i realised who he was to everyone else in the world. everything died in my world. god died.

My heart was aching. it was a day ofjust waiting and waiting, not understanding what was happening, not knowing if dylan was alive or dead, not knowing if he had really hurt other people or if this was all kind of twisted mistake. all day long ijust kept asking the police over and over again, wheres my son, is my son dead? late in the afternoon, one of them sent to me, yes, he is.

So he did know where the key for the cabinet was. the whole point was to go, leave me alone, take the guns, get out of here. so he still knew where i kept the key. they continued to ask about, you know, guns and ammunition, and i said, i dont know where he got the ammunition. i didnt have any in there, i thought we had shot it all when we went out in the desert. for months i was in denial. they said that the boys did all these terrible things, that they not only killed and hurt people, but they ...

How to crawl, i was with him when he learned how to walk and i will be with him when he learns how to crawl and how to walk again. dylan had been in trouble for stealing but he had just gotten off of diversion. they said dylan and eric had done so beautifully they wanted to let them off early. dylan had been accepted at four colleges of his choice and got into the school of his choice, the university of arizona. he was in school plays, he had a job after school. he was getting passable grades. h...

But at this stage in my life, i guess i would say, yes, i am. you know, of course i would have wished that these horrible things hadnt happened. but certainly im grateful that ive reached a place where life is ok and theres plenty to be thankful for. i had friends, and friends who knew dylan, people who i worked with, neighbours. people who were incredibly kind and supportive, thank god, because i could not have survived without that connection. do you bring a casserole to somebody whose son has...