Families of Parkland victims are addressing the court Monday during the penalty phase of the confessed shooter's trial.
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"I keep talking to him in my mind. I have to imagine the moments we were supposed to live and share with him," she said. "I lost the friend who understood me most. I lost the excitement to watch him grow up," she said. "I lost innocence, I lost purity. I lost the love letters he was writing for me in that fourth-period creative writing class -- I never actually received them. They were pinned to his shirt. I miss my best friend and the way he made me feel at home.
"No amount of strength can prepare you for hours of waiting and worrying only to see your parents come home with one of your siblings but not another one," she continued. "The initial pain of finding out she was dead has been nothing compared to the pain of living without her. I keep waiting for her to walk through the door.""Her absence screams at me, even when I'm focused on other things," she said.
"The two of them had a very special bond," Schulman said. "Scott was the safety net she always counted on."Scott Beigel spent his childhood going to sleepaway camp and loved it so much, he ended up running the boys' camp when he was in his 30s, she said.
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