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New York Times: One Grieving Mother Hasn’t Given Up Hope for a Gun Control Compromise

Lizzi Riordan · March 27, 2024 ·

“A year after losing her daughter in the Covenant School shooting, Katy Dieckhaus is speaking about Evelyn, and the changes she wants to see.

The essence of Evelyn Dieckhaus is still there, captured in the pink Bible where she underlined the word “covenant” in silver ink, and in the beaming photos of her with her family.

…Her mother, Katy Dieckhaus, has since placed those pieces of her daughter’s memory into what she calls her “little Ev bag,” which she has carried with her as she takes her first steps into the intractable debate over gun control in Tennessee.”

Continue reading at The New York Times.

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