Families of Sandy Hook Elementary School victims who were killed in Dec. 14 massacre carried out by Adam Lanza tell People how they are coping months after the ultimate tragedy.
By Nancy Dillon / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
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Sandy Hook Elementary School first-grader Noah Pozner's parents open
about heartache. Veronique Pozner says, 'We're just emerging from the
initial shockwaves, the numbness, the denial.'
Some days they feel stronger, on others they sink back into paralyzing despair.
The parents of 20 first-graders gunned down at Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14 describe their ongoing grief as a messy process filled with progress and setbacks.
In a series of heart-rending interviews with People magazine, they say
the shock of the unspeakable mass shooting finally is wearing off —
giving way to their cruel new reality.
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"We've been given an impossible life to live," little Jessica Rekos’
mom Krista told People. "I don't know how to live my life without my
little girl."
Many siblings are trying to cope as well and provide critical comfort in their parents' darkest hours.
Daniel Barden's sister Natalie is keeping a journal dedicated to her
brother and offering extra hugs along with her brother James.
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"The grieving process, we're learning, is not 24 hours a day of sobbing," Daniel's dad Mark Barden told People.
"It's cyclical — cycles of sadness and overwhelming despair and rage," he said.
Noah Pozner's mom said the loss of her "vivacious" son has left an "unimaginable void."
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"We're just emerging from the initial shockwaves, the numbness, the
denial," Veronique Pozner told People. "It's not a linear thing. We go
back and forth between these stages. But it's starting to dawn on me
that he will never come back."
While their hearts remain heavy, many parents also are working to bring positive change.
"I feel my purpose is to perpetuate the message that has been created,
basically, by this tragedy, which is choosing love," Jesse Lewis' mom
Scarlett Lewis said. "You see signs all over the town . … 'Choose
Love.'"
The parents of 20 first-graders gunned down at Sandy Hook Elementary School on Dec. 14 describe their ongoing grief as a messy process filled with progress and setbacks.
People
Catherine Hubbard's parents do a photo shoot and speak with People Magazine.
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Josephine Gay's parents speak with People and remembers their little girl as a lover of purple who always hugged onto her Baltimore Ravens T-shirt.
Many siblings are trying to cope as well and provide critical comfort in their parents' darkest hours.
People
'The grieving process, we're learning, is not 24 hours a day of sobbing,' Daniel Barden's dad, Mark, tells People.
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People
Dylan Hockley's parents remember their son's love of the moon and stars.
"It's cyclical — cycles of sadness and overwhelming despair and rage," he said.
People
Jesse Lewis' mother Scarlett Lewis painted portraits of her little girl killed in shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.
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'I feel my purpose is to perpetuate the message that has been created, basically, by this tragedy, which is choosing love,' Jesse Lewis' mom Scarlett Lewis tells People.
While their hearts remain heavy, many parents also are working to bring positive change.
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