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AmandaRaeLeo    2,146

AmandaRaeLeo
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I just wanted to take a moment to offer up my prayers and thoughts to those in Boston today.

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yazzy    105

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I AM WITH YOU ON THAT . PRAYERS OUT TO ALL THERE..

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SpaceDust    585

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Indeed. This is a sobering time, and my heart goes to everyone personally affected by this hideous attack.

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Pixie Dust    526

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Amen.

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cmaloney    151

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My heart hurts for the people of Boston. From someone who was 3 blocks from the 9/11 attacks & lost 3 friends that day, it just makes me so numb that it's happening again...my thoughts & prayers go out to ALL of us. The world we are living in now is not the safe place that I grew up in....

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NORCALRN    60

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as a nurse and first responder volunteer where i live, this is breaking my heart just like the rest of the world. emotions all over the place. i will think of you all. i cry for this terrible thing that happened. sure puts things in persepctive for me. so what....my complictions are nothing..shame on me for feeling sorry for myself at times. i am 44 and i cannot fathom why people are so fuc+#ng mean.

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Oliver's Mom    258

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So very very sad......and frightening. I don't think I could ever imagine why and how someone could do any act like this. My mind just doesn't work that way. An 8 year old boy, who just had run out to hug his dad who was running the marathon, than ran back to be with his mother & sister....he's now gone. How could that possible make sense?

My heart and prayers are with all of those affected by this crime. Those killed, hurt, the families of those folks, those who witnessed the devastation either by being there or seeing it on film, the first responders, those who ran toward the blast (even before knowing if there would be any others, and this was) the strangers helping strangers, the man, Carlos Arrendondo, who lost his Marine son in Irag in 2004,he was a spectator who rushed to the side of a young man who had lost both his legs tying tourniquets with a ripped tee shirt and wheeling him past the finish line to an ambulance - sending showers of Reiki healing, light and love.

I have to believe that we as good people of the world far outnumber those who do evil. I have to believe that. I have to.

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Yoly617    46

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I never thought this would ever happen in my hometown! I am in complete shock and work here is completely quiet! My prayers and thoughts are with everyone in Boston

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Nicolanz    1,484

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My cousin usually runs in that Marathon. His time is 2 hrs and 45 minutes so he would have been one of the first to cross the finish line with his babies waiting for him there. I'm so thankful he didn't go this year!

My heart aches for those people. How scary that this could happen anywhere!

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ProudGrammy    8,322

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all of the above - and future posts say it all :(

with all the killing, injuries - our life will never be the same :(

we are living through the new normal, how sad is that :(

some people/sleevers have experienced serious problems

compared to what just happened in boston - schools kids

other problems here (gas, hunger) more inconvenience

puts certain "things" here et al in perspective :(

God please help this world we now live in

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Babysteppin    165

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Got a text at 6am saying that work is closed, and to "stay inside until further notice". Never have I flown outta bed so fast at 6am! Such an eerie, tense scene here right now. The city is shut down, including many surrounding suburbs. Everywhere is on lockdown...they say over 1 million people are staying inside their homes/work right now. I know of a few VSG'ers who are supposed to be coming home from the hospital or have family visit, but can't because no one can go in or out. I graduated with the critically wounded transit officer...sat next to him in 3rd grade...heck, he's having surgery right now at the same hospital I'll be having mine on Monday! Way too close to home...way too close to everyone's home. *Prayers*

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AmandaRaeLeo    2,146

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Prayers go out to Richard Donohue and all of the victims of this attack..

Indeed. I pray that they catch this kid without anymore lives lost. And soon.

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AmandaRaeLeo    2,146

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Suspect caught without any more lives lost. Far too many lives lost so far.

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