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They ranged in age from 18 to 50. They were dancers and students, a singer and a bouncer, an accountant and an aspiring firefighter — mothers, fathers, teenagers, couples and best friends.
'It could trigger a memory they had maybe when they were small and they had that favorite pet and it's also something they can hold close to them'
Outside of Pulse nightclub are tributes to the victims. Five years later, the pain of Pulse lingers Grief swirls as survivors struggle with trauma, while plans for a $45 million museum and memorial take shape. By CHRIS URSOJune 9, 2021 ORLANDO — Some nights, on his long drive home, he conjures up reasons to see the nightclub again. It’s past midnight, usually, when he leaves work and pulls off at the Kaley Street exit. He drives past the blue hospital signs, past the dusty warehouse district where a museum is slated to rise. He makes a right turn onto South Orange Avenue, toward the sta...
Sandye Brown has been with the GC District Attorney's Office since 1999 and now helps to prepare some of the office's biggest cases.
Jerry Wright’s “farm.” Courtesy photo by SUSAN M. BRACKNEY Adam Hamel always imagined gardening someday, but with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, someday arrived sooner than expected. “Everyone was stockpiling food and toilet paper,” Hamel recalls. “Not knowing how things were going to turn out in the next six months to a year, we thought this would be the perfect time to become more self-sufficient.” Jerry Wright. Courtesy photo The Stone Belt development manager and his fiancée fenced a 15-by-15-foot veggie patch and packed in some of everything. “Our biggest problem wa...