The memory of Hadiya Pendleton is not too far from the mind of Lawrence Sellers. He was there when she was shot, and was injured during the incident. She was a friend.
He has to ask himself why this had to happen? Why must he now relive the moments of her death, a scene that replays in his mind? How should he move past it?
Sellers, who protected his girlfriend by taking a bullet, was injured in his left leg. The wound will keep him from doing some of his favorite activities such as basketball and skateboarding. Although it is a smaller price to pay than Hadiya, he wonders why anyone should have to pay a price at all.
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