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ALT Lindsay and I learned that there was one kid on the way from Uvalde, routed to the pediatric I.C.U. "Just one?" I asked. We wondered whether this might be good news maybe there weren't too many injuries. "Or it could be really bad. It could mean that they're all dead," Lindsay said. But we didn't believe that yet. I looked at the news on my phone. Greg Abbott, the Governor, had announced that at least fourteen children were dead. I didn't believe that, either. Fourteen have been shot, I thought, not fourteen dead fourteen had been shot, and we were waiting to receive them, patch them up, and save them.