Mandi
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Mandi
@mandibattsei.bsky.social
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If we speak her name she will live forever 💜🦋🪶

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5/ The aunt feeling the weight of immeasurable heartache and inescapable grief… enduring a brief encounter with the artist stumbling over words about how they were related and their process of deciding whether to come to the exhibit
January 13, 2025 at 9:50 PM
4/ the picture taken by her aunt at the last annual camping trip she attended…the same picture on the sweatshirt the aunt is wearing to this art exhibit, standing in front of this desk now with the pictures of these 4th graders shoes just over her right shoulder…
January 13, 2025 at 9:49 PM
3/ The elected official on the panel stating quite blasé he’d seen the shoes before they had been cleaned

The immediate reaction of sobbing at the sight of her niece’s picture on one of the school desks at the exhibit in a collage with her classmates…

Not just any picture…
January 13, 2025 at 9:48 PM
2/ Studying the shoes her niece had just received a month earlier for her 10th birthday

The portrait of her mother, with her niece’s picture on a pendant dangling necklace above the crossed arms of her mother holding her shoes
January 13, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Any person who uses a weapon against an unarmed person, especially a child...The majority of the kids attending this school will have PTSD as gun violence survivors. An entire generation of traumatized people.
December 6, 2024 at 1:29 AM