After the shooting, Highland Park is trying to be a town again.
. But downtown Highland Park didn’t really get a makeover. People just kind of had to go back.
Now, there is a heaviness in the air. When I was making plans to meet with Hartman, for example, she told me she has barely left her house in the past month. She was adamant we sit outside to chat because she still struggles in confined spaces. “I’m constantly looking around and making exit strategies, things that you shouldn’t be thinking about,” she told me.
The experience has made many of the survivors look at other mass shootings differently. Many people I spoke with observed that the attention tends to be on the lives that were lost. But what is lost with that nearly sole focus is the ways in which the survivors are still struggling, whether they wereAdvertisement
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