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Anne Marie Murphy, 52, teacher
Updated: Wednesday, 19 Dec 2012, 9:45 PM EST
Published : Sunday, 16 Dec 2012, 7:00 PM EST
(AP) -- A happy soul. A good mother, wife and daughter. Artistic, fun-loving, witty and hardworking.
Remembering their daughter, Anne Marie Murphy, her parents had no shortage of adjectives to offer Newsday. When news of the shooting broke, Hugh and Alice McGowan waited for word of their daughter as hours ticked by. And then it came.
Authorities told the couple their daughter was a hero who helped shield some of her students from the rain of bullets. As the grim news arrived, the victim's mother reached for her rosary.
"You don't expect your daughter to be murdered," her father told the newspaper. "It happens on TV. It happens elsewhere."
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Report It News Photos: November 2012
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