I feel the same way as you. I wrote this to the Mister in an e-mail today because I needed to talk about it to someone but not just in a random way -- you know?:
"I've been reading the articles about the Dawson College shooting. I just find it so disturbing. I guess this is because I used to walk through Dawson College on my way to other places. I used to shop at the mall that was attached to it (quick groceries while at school which was only a couple blocks away). All the other shootings just seem like things that happen to other people until you can actually put a visual to the location where they happened. A lot of the people I knew in Montreal went to Dawson College for Cegep. I don't even want to mention this to anyone else but you because I don't want to be one of those people who make it all about them and talk about how this is so close to home blah blah blah just because they once saw a picture of some place where something awful happened or because their 3rd cousin dated someone whose brother went to that school once upon a time - but it has put things into an interesting light for me."
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Date: 2006-09-15 04:26 am (UTC)"I've been reading the articles about the Dawson College shooting. I just find it so disturbing. I guess this is because I used to walk through Dawson College on my way to other places. I used to shop at the mall that was attached to it (quick groceries while at school which was only a couple blocks away). All the other shootings just seem like things that happen to other people until you can actually put a visual to the location where they happened. A lot of the people I knew in Montreal went to Dawson College for Cegep. I don't even want to mention this to anyone else but you because I don't want to be one of those people who make it all about them and talk about how this is so close to home blah blah blah just because they once saw a picture of some place where something awful happened or because their 3rd cousin dated someone whose brother went to that school once upon a time - but it has put things into an interesting light for me."