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Vegas memorial: 'Pain that never really goes away'

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A year
after Jann Blake and two
friends survived the gunfire
at a country music festival
in Las Vegas, the trio re-
turned to the city Monday
to mark the 12 months that
have passed since the
deadliest mass shooting in
the nation's modern history.
"We need to have this. It's
not a closure ceremony,
it's more a remembrance,"
Blake said at an evangeli-
cal prayer vigil. "There was
a lot of good. There were
people in there that helped
us get out." Blake, of Meni-
fee, California, along with
Linda Hazelwood of Ana-
heim and Michelle Hamel
of Yorba Linda — held
hands and bowed heads
at the ceremony at City
Hall, one of many somber
tributes marking the anni-
versary of the night that a
gunman opened fire from
a high-rise casino-resort
suite on a crowd of 22,000 From left, Linda Hazelwood, Michelle Hamel and Jann Blake, all from California, cry as they attend a prayer service on the anniversary
country music fans. of the Oct. 1, 2017 mass shooting, Monday, Oct. 1, 2018, in Las Vegas.
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