Memorializing the bedrooms of children killed in school shootings

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Parents who lost children in school shootings across America are preserving their kids' bedrooms as frozen-in-time memorials, untouched spaces filled with toys, homework, and the ordinary artifacts of interrupted lives. A 60 Minutes segment gives voice to families grappling with an unbearable choice: whether to keep these rooms exactly as they were or let them change. The piece centers several parents describing the emotional weight of walking into spaces where their children will never return, offering no easy answers but deep human testimony to grief that refuses to be put away.