Thoughts and Prayers Can’t Save Us Now.

Renee Dubeau
4 min readAug 4, 2019

“At least it wasn’t another school.”

It was the first thought that crossed my mind this morning when I learned that we’d had our second mass shooting in twenty-four hours. I recoiled at my own callousness. When did I become so cynical?

Have I become so desensitized to these events that I’m now searching for a bright side? As if the lives lost to…

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Renee Dubeau

Creative Nonfiction Author, Mental Health First Aid, Healthcare Access Freak & Social Justice Renegade.