Good days, bad days
If someone had told Lisbeth Røyneland that her daughter was to be shot and killed, she would have thought: “Then I will die too.” But then she began to pay attention to living again.
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She did not have many choices. One of them was to try to live on. But Lisbeth Røyneland lives on with the certainty that her youngest daughter, Synne, was executed with three fatal shots to the head with two different weapons by the worst mass murderer in Norwegian history.
She was found between two other dead at “Stoltenberget”, a mountain on Utøya. The daughter did not like cramped rooms, and more think that was why she tried to hide outside on Utøya. So even for someone who lives on, and who can laugh, feel joy and lightness, the weight of some days can feel like having soaked wool on the body.
This June day, it is pouring down from a dark sky full of thunder and lightning. Such weather was the day the daughter was killed, it is a type of weather that gives Lisbeth Røyneland “pressure in the head”. Moreover, it is only days ago that she stood up to the news release about the terrorist attack in central Oslo. I’ll add that to the 11th anniversary of July 22nd. For many survivors, it feels difficult to enjoy the summer before the day has passed. So there are a lot of reminders out there now.
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