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In Newtown, An Effort To Preserve A Mountain Of Sympathy Cards
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Kelly McLean sorts generally addressed condolence mail from other mail at the US Post Office December 21, 2012 in Newtown, Connecticut. The US Postal Service has set up a special PO Box for receiving condolence and support mail for those effected by last Friday's shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School where 20 students and 6 adults were gunned down however the post office still has to sort through mail generally addressed to the victims too. AFP PHOTO/Brendan SMIALOWSKI (Photo credit should read BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images)

NEWTOWN, Conn. -- In the 1,500 or so cards and letters in Box 58 at the Newtown Municipal Center, a mother named Ursula recalled the 6-month-old she lost in an auto accident; a 9-year-old, Hayden Toland-Yeh, pondered mortality; and Robert M. Sutton, a lawyer from Myrtle Beach, S.C., wrote movingly about the gun violence that ravaged his family when he was 6.

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