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Nikki Marion: "If he had at least been a country hater"
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Marcel Schwickerath / DER SPIEGEL
Sometimes a nothingness awakens the ghosts in your head.
Yesterday, for example, she was in the shower, the jet of water hit her face from the side - the memory promptly returned.
"It felt like the warm blood from the woman next to me who was shot in the head," says Nadine L.
It has been three years since the 43-year-old German witnessed at the "Route 91 Harvest" country music festival in Las Vegas how a man shot 58 people from a window of the Mandalay Bay hotel within minutes, and 851 were wounded.
It was the most deadly massacre in recent US history.
Nikki Marion, with ash-blonde hair and hard features, is still following the experiences of that time.
"When I hear a rattle at night, I hear a machine gun."
Your voice sounds rough.
The 57-year-old woman trembles when she talks about the night of horror outside her apartment in east Las Vegas.
The hoop earrings in their ears swing back and forth like small hula hoops.
She looks through her counterpart.
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