Instead we packed, charged our phones and cried as I sat down to write this.

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"I just broke down and cried because it brought it all back, it's a heartbreaking experience for everybody, " says Kia Scherr who lost her husband and daughter in the attack.

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"I just cried, I broke down, " she said.

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As she waited and cried in the emergency room at Beth Israel, she looked down and saw that, in her rush, she had put on one pink sock and one gray.

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"It's shameful to live like this, " cried Najoud, a mother of eight, as she she broke down in tears.

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