![]() ![]() The only boy she’d ever kissed died three days later. ![]() Ava escaped, but a classmate she loved, Jacob Hall, was shot in the leg. In 2016, when Ava was in first grade, she walked out onto the playground behind Townville Elementary as an angry 14-year-old pulled up in a truck, raised a handgun and opened fire. ![]() Less than a month had passed since she’d done something no one ever thought she would do: go back to school. “This thing is so heavy,” said the 13-year-old, who had stuffed her bag with every item she suspected she might need for seventh grade, including 15 pens, a hairbrush, an oversized water bottle featuring the image of a bespectacled giraffe and a body spray labeled “Magic in the Air.” Just before dawn, Ava Olsen lugged her new backpack into the living room and plopped it on the floor. ![]()
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