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As bullets flew at Columbine, she was fighting Oregon for custody of her child

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On April 20, 1999, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris walk into Columbine High School and begin shooting classmates and teachers. They murder 13 and injure nearly two dozen more before committing suicide.

On the same day, Kathleen Tyson, who is HIV positive, walks into a courtroom to fight for the right to breastfeed her infant son, which the state of Oregon claims will kill him.

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