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Review: HBO's 'Song of Parkland' a wallop of emotion, inspiration from theater students

If you can handle 30 minutes of more or less nonstop weeping - your own, that is - may I recommend Amy Schatz's "Song of Parkland," a documentary short film that was to premiere Thursday on HBO. The Parkland in question is the city in Florida, thrust into the spotlight by the 2018 high school school shooting that claimed 17 lives and kept in the spotlight by surviving students who refused to stay quiet about politicians who substitute prayers for action

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