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Gabby Giffords documentary comes as gun debates stay center stage

The film on the former Arizona congresswoman and her recovery from the 2011 shooting explains how she navigated gun control campaigns and later a Senate campaign.

In the two years documentary filmmakers shadowed former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, the most jarring moment for them was in the kitchen of her Tucson, Arizona, home.

As cameras were rolling, she and her husband, Sen. Mark Kelly, nonchalantly opened the freezer. Kelly grabbed a plastic container and revealed it holds the piece of Giffords' skull that had to be removed after she was shot.

"This stays in here next to the empanadas and the sliced mango," Kelly said.

Giffords' response was "Sera, sera," referencing the song "Que sera, sera" or "What will be, will be."

The scene from the film is emblematic of

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