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These days, Theresa Hoover describes her life as "before AJ" and "after AJ."
“It doesn’t feel like 10 years. It feels like yesterday,” Hoover said. “I know I’ve grown a lot in the 10 years. But really, what does 10 years feel like?”
Hoover said sometimes a decade seems like a few days and sometimes it’s as if 20 years have passed. “It changed everything ten years ago,” she said. “It’s not just turning a page but reading a whole new book.”
Her son, 18-year-old AJ Boik, was one of people killed in the Aurora theater shooting on July 20, 2012.
The victims were:
Veronica Moser-Sullivan, 6
Alexander J. “AJ” Boik, 18
Micayla Medek, 23
Jessica Ghawi (also known as Jessica Redfield), 24
Alexander C. Teves, 24
Jonathan Blunk, 26
John Larimer, 27
Matt McQuinn, 27
Alex Sullivan, 27
Jesse Childress, 29
Rebecca Wingo, 32
Gordon Cowden, 51
“Today, AJ would be 28. He would be a ceramics teacher, probably at Gateway [High School] with the teacher who he wanted to work with when he got out of Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design. He would probably be a daddy. He would probably be a husband,” Hoover said, starting to tear up.
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