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    EDC Las Vegas fans handle a post-Avicii, post-massacre world

    by August Brown, Los Angeles Times May 22, 2018 5 minutes

    Late Saturday night at Electric Daisy Carnival, Omar Marruto leaned against the side of a concrete pillar on the track of the Las Vegas Motor Speedway. All around him, tens of thousands of young EDM fans, wearing illuminated boots, beard glitter and X's of neon nipple tape bounded past him on the fest's man drag, Electric Avenue.

    As he rested, the 26-year-old Las Vegas native held a giant flag aloft on a pole. "Vegas Strong," it read, waving in the blustery desert night. Nobody had to ask him what it meant.

    "It is on my mind," Marruto said of last year's massacre at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival, where a gunman killed 59 concertgoers and wounded hundreds more, in the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history. Marruto wasn't

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