Opinion: How a bullet fired by a stranger almost killed and forever changed me
CNNEditor’s Note: This essay is part of the CNN Opinion series “America’s Future Starts Now” in which people share how they have been affected by the biggest issues facing the nation and experts offer their proposed solutions. She’s been involved locally and nationally with Students Demand Action, an organization of young activists working to end gun violence. ‘On a path to make something of ourselves’ A security camera from a nearby house later showed a guy in a white tank top crouched between two cars, like he was waiting for someone. I remember a firefighter saying he couldn’t believe another young girl had been shot that night; other shooting victims across Chicago that night included two school-age sisters. They discharged me at night, forcing me back into the front seat of my mom’s car in the darkness, just a week after being shot in the front seat of my boyfriend’s car.
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