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When Things Collapse: A Memoir of Love, Loss, Survival, and StrengthIn 2014, while grocery shopping with her two young children, Emma Jean receives a life-altering phone call: her estranged ex-husband has become an active shooter. His subsequent incarceration causes her to confront the painful past she hoped she had long…


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