'Everyone here knows what's going on. Everyone here wants to talk about the same thing.'
In the chaos of Monday's deadly mass shooting in Highland Park, many parade goers found safety in small businesses downtown.
In Highland Park, it's not uncommon to see people stopping in the street giving each other a hug and creating a space to heal."Strangers become, you know, friends and family when brought together by tragedy and this is now a community that is bound by tragedy. If nothing else, other than the acknowledgment of 'I am suffering' I am too," said Matt Berk."We all are, even if we just sit together here in silence we're sharing something.
When the shooting happened, he had just put his youngest down for a nap. Now he's trying to figure out a way to talk to them about it all.
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