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Balancing Act: 'Don't accept gun violence as a fact of life.' A call to action as our country continues to spill blood

When I read that the last day of Trevor Wehner's life was the first day of his internship at Henry Pratt Co. in Aurora, Ill., I thought about Dayna Less.

Less was in her first year of a pharmacy residency at Mercy Hospital & Medical Center when a gunman opened fire there in November. She walked off an elevator, and a bullet hit and killed her. She was 24.

"She was the strongest person I know," her dad, Brian Less,

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