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And now with concerns over this delta variant, we're looking at a lot of chaos that could be happening at the last minute in this back to school shopping season. >> calculators, colored pencils, graph paper. >> reporter: these school supplies are being bundled and sent to children in need. but the items here are on most kids' back to school list. and this month is peak shopping season. one expected to break records. >> we're expecting record-breaking spending for both back to school and college this year. >> reporter: parents are projected to spend $37 billion this year, up 3 billion from last...

Understand and you feel like saying you have no idea. you have no idea. you know they mean well, but the people who, in fact, have been through it, you know they understand. and it gives you solace that they made it, you just want to know, can i make it through. and i had a older gentleman, 35 years my senior, a former elected official in the state of new jersey call me, former governor, and he said i understand, i almost said don't, he said, you know, i was walking home from lunch, i was the attorney general and my wife, a woman came running across the mall saying she's dead, she's dead, your...

You know they understand, and it gives you solace they made it. you just want to know can i make it through? and i had an older gentleman, 35 years my senior and a former elected official in new jersey call me, a former governor and said i understand and i almost said don't. and he said i was walking home from lunch and i was the attorney general and my wife, a woman came running across the mall saying she's dead, she's dead, your wife just died. and i said -- and i realized he did know. and you know what i did, there's two things. one, he said get a piece of graph paper and mark every single ...

Idea. you have no idea. you know they mean well. but the people who in fact have been through it, you know they understand. it gives you solace that they made it. you just want to know, can i make it through? and i had an older gentleman 35 years my senior, a former elected official in the state of new jersey call me, former governor and said i understand. i all most said to him, he said i was walking home from lunch. i was the attorney general and my wife came, a woman who helps out came running across the mall saying she's dead. she's dead. your wife just died. and i said -- and i realized h...

And he said don't look at it for six months. mark it on a graph paper 1 to 10. you know you're going to make it when they get further and further and further apart, still get down. >> it never goes away. >> it never goes away, but that's when you know you can make it. that's when you know you can embrace the family members that are left. that's when you know that you can make a contribution. just like when i lost my son i remember to him saying to me -- i wrote a book about it, unfortunately. i wanted people to know what he was like. and he looked at me and when we'd go home on fridays to have...