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In her dreams, Suzi kept reliving the last moments before she lost consciousness: lying on her side in a parking lot, face-to-face with her 9-year-old neighbor, Christina-Taylor Green, whom she had taken that day to meet their congresswoman, Gabrielle Giffords.
"The sadness of it is bottomless," Bill Hileman said as he took a break from his bedside vigil at Tucson's University Medical Center. "She took a friend's kid away and didn't bring her back."
The hospital has listed Suzi's condition as good. But on Friday, she saw her scarred body and extensive wounds for the first time. Her grief over the tragedy and Christina's death overwhelmed her, and she broke down and sobbed uncontrollably.
"I hugged her. All I can do is hug her and cry with her and mourn the loss," he said. "There need be no guilt. There is a tremendous sense of loss that keeps feeling bigger.... This is going to be with us forever."