Like graduating seniors everywhere, members of Newtown High School's class of 2024 expect bittersweet feelings at their commencement ceremony — excitement about heading off to college or careers and sadness about leaving their friends and community.
"As much as we've tried to have that normal, like, childhood and normal high school experience, it wasn't totally normal," Fischer said. "In Sandy Hook, what happened is always kind of looming over us," Matt Holden, 17, who was in a classroom down the hall from the shooting, said. "For me, I feel like it's definitely going to get better and be able to break free of that system and just be able to become my own person rather than, again, the Sandy Hook kid," Ehrens said.
They say their fallen classmates have motivated their advocacy, which they all plan to continue after high school.She plans to study psychology in college and to become a therapist, wanting to give back in a way that helped her.
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