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Eric Zorn: 30 years later, a school shooting survivor looks back

The kids are in their late 30s now, the second-graders who survived when a young woman burst into their classroom in Winnetka, Ill., in May 1988 and opened fire, killing one student and wounding five others.

It wasn't the first school shooting in America, but at the time it was the most disturbing - a nightmare visited upon a wealthy suburban enclave that dominated the national news for several days.

A disturbed daughter of privilege, Laurie Dann, 30, first went on a rampage

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