Amidst the paralyzing grief following the Newtown, Conn., elementary school shooting, a team of golden retrievers is on site to comfort, be present and listen. Newtown High School counselors are assigned students alphabetically. When Deidre Croce looked at the list of victims, she realized that in eight short years, six would have been her students. Those children, 20 first-graders in all, along with six adults—their principal, counselor and teachers—were killed at the hands of a lone gunman at Sandy Hook Elementary Friday morning, Dec. 14, 2012.
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