Zack McMillin: They came floating through her Chicago office, two words transmitted from a news alert on Dec. 14, two words conjoined to form the awful phrase that has become all too familiar to 26-year-old Mary Hollis Inboden: "School shooting."
As the details began to emerge from the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in Newtown, Conn., the professional actress recognized well what was happening to her even as she struggled to control it — her breathing was increasing, the panic starting to rise.
Again.
Some part of her was back on that playground, a 12-year-old sixth-grader at Westside Middle School
outside Jonesboro, Ark., the pop-pop-pops not firecrackers but bullets — one of them…
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