‘You can’t keep reliving it’: Stoneman Douglas trauma endures, but healing continues four years later

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — It was supposed to be a day filled with expressions of young love at a high school in one of Florida’s safest communities.

But the tragedy at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Valentine’s Day 2018 turned it into a day of agony, confusion and despair, a day that created excruciating wounds that have yet to heal and, for some, never may.

South Florida vowed never to forget the fallen, the 17 students and staff.