But statistics don't matter much if it's your child that's shot, said Missy Carson Smith, founder of Gun Safe Mom, a campaign to make the gun question as common as asking about food allergies, swimming pools and video game limits.

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When training camp opens on Monday, the Liberty's core of returning players, led by Cappie Pondexter, Essence Carson, Pierson and Braxton and will joined by Smith, Ford and five rookies.

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Auden and his poet-boyfriend, Chester Kallman, Carson McCullers, Benjamin Britten, Peter Pears, Jane and Paul Bowles, Oliver Smith, Marc Blitzstein, Richard Wright, and Gypsy Rose Lee.

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