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We are  planning our daughter's wedding and it is a delight! I just came across my great grandmother's 150 year-old crystal reception glasses and punch bowl set and my eyes got a little misty. "Of course we will use those ,somehow, so grandma Sadie can feel present", I muse to myself. "I know she must be proud of our daughter too." It is not only a wedding we are planning, but a triumph of sorts. A triumph of a soul who has overcome! In the wake of the tragedy not before even imagined, the loss of twenty  tiny angel souls at the hand of deranged gunman, I must have my say. A part of my heart aches for Adam Lanza's mother. While I am celebrating the wonderful strides we have made with our daughter, Adam's mom  is lying in a coffin, having given up marriage, countless friendships and finally her life, to a neurological disorder that is at epidemic proportions in our times.   We have all heard the theories that supposedly cause autism. "It ...