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On the recordDecember 20, 2012
By the time I had gotten to the next funeral, to little Dylan Hockley's funeral, the horror had already started to spread through the 200, 300 people who were there. Dylan's family talked about the fact that they knew that something good was going to come from Dylan's death, that there was going to be change in this country.
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Chris Murphy
Democratic · Connecticut

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Murphy reflects on the funerals and the hope for change following the tragedy.

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