Season Finale: Part 2 - Walking with the ghosts of Blacksburg
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Part 2 of our season finale deals with the physical and psychological aftermath of the Virginia Tech massacre. Two survivors, Kevin Sterne and Kristina Anderson, do their best to pick up the pieces and move forward with their lives, but the ghosts from that day continue to haunt them. Symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder began seeping into their psyches. Both would become consumed by a wide-range of emotions. Over time, Kristina would become so gripped with fear, a simple shower became impossible. Meanwhile, Kevin suffered with unexplainable fits of rage. His temperament would ebb and flow in waves that were never a part of his personality.
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