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‘Neighbours here are incredible’: How mother of British victim fell in love with small town
Russell Myers, Daily Mail (London)
The Fountainhead |
The mother of the six-year-old British boy killed in the American primary school massacre spoke of how her family had ‘felt happy and comfortable’ leaving England to live in the small town which was to become the scene of one of the worst gun tragedies in US history. [....] [I]n a poignant interview with the local newspaper in Newtown, believed to have taken place earlier this year, Mrs Hockley, 42, said spending time with her children gave her ‘a lot of joy’ and that the people in her new neighbourhood ‘are incredible’. [....] ‘I read a lot of different stuff, but I keep coming back to three: Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead, John Steinbeck’s The Grapes Of Wrath, and Tolkien’s Lord Of The Rings.’
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