“It's hard to be desperate, when you are dead.”

— Rachel Scott

Source: "Desperate Measures" (25 April 1998), as quoted in Rachel's Tears: 10th Anniversary Edition: The Spiritual Journey of Columbine https://books.google.com/books?id=GE5sCrZ9JwkC&pg=PA109 (2008), by Beth Nimmo, Darrell Scott, and Steve Rabey, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, p. 127

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American murder victim 1981–1999

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