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Town in mourning flooded with gifts

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Newtown's children were showered with gifts - tens of thousands of teddy bears, Barbie dolls, footballs and board games - and those are only some of the tokens of support from around the world for the town in mourning. Just a little over a week ago, 20 children and six school employees were gunned down at Sandy Hook Elementary School. Twenty-year-old Adam Lanza killed his mother, attacked the school, then killed himself. Police don't know what set off the massacre. Days before Christmas, funerals were still being held, the last of those whose schedules were made public, according to the Connecticut Funeral Directors Association. A service was held on Saturday in Ogden, Utah, for 6-year-old Emilie Parker. Others were held in Connecticut for Josephine Gay, 7, and Ana Marquez-Greene, 6. A horse-drawn carriage brought the miniature coffin of Ana to The First Cathedral church in Bloomfield, Connecticut, where 1,000 mourners gathered to bid goodbye. The service included a performance by Harry Connick, Jr, who has played with the girl's jazz saxophonist father, Jimmy Greene. Family members remembered her as wild-haired child with her own love of music. "Ana had a song," said the Rev Paul...

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