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Image caption Student Emma Gonzalez speaks at a rally for gun control

Throughout this week, we have been looking back at some of the BBC website's most-read stories of the year and asking: what happened after the news moved on?

It has been 10 months since Morgan Williams cowered under her teacher's desk as bullets were fired into her Florida classroom; 10 months since 17 people died in the halls and rooms of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School; 10 months since Morgan and her classmates found themselves at the centre of the battle for stronger gun control.

Ten months in which she has been left feeling abandoned and exploited at the same time, struggling to come to terms with the reality of being a school shooting survivor.

"It's frustrating because I know I'm not the same person I once was and I wish I didn't have this ongoing battle inside between the new me and the old me," the aspiring screenwriter told the BBC just before Christmas.

"This is my senior year of high school and I absolutely hate it. It's the worst year of my life and I cannot wait until I finally graduate and move out of this area.

"It's impossible trying to heal and move forward with my life when I have to see the building everyday."

'Daring our country to do better'

It took Nikolas Cruz less than six minutes from firing his first shot to his last to kill 17 people and injure 17 more on 14 February this year. Those few minutes changed the students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas from regular teenagers to school shooting survivors.

But these

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