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'I'm just trying to hold on': Mother's Day brings anguish for Philly moms who have lost children to violence

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NORTH PHILADELPHIA - The number of young people losing their lives to gun violence is sobering. Mother’s Day can be especially difficult for their parents and Sunday, they have a plea for people to put their guns down.Daphne Brown points to a blanket with photographs and states, "This is why I have this photo blanket, for memories, because he was my only child."Mother’s Day brings a compounded pain for Daphne Brown.

It’s a difficult day for anyone that has lost a child. But, in Brown’s case, her 20-year-old son Sebastian was killed on Mother’s Day, two years ago."I’m just trying to hold on.

It’s because of God that I’m not crazy," Brown explains. "There’s no reason to shoot someone and it’s sad because our young folk are getting younger and younger that are leaving this world.

They’re carjacking at 10-years-old! Why? What is the reason? We’ve got to do better."Brown joined other mothers who have lost their children to gun violence in a spa day in North Philadelphia, at Glossy Nails Boutique, ahead of Mother’s Day weekend.A partnership with Sixx Degrees Media who is working on a second documentary to feature mothers who have encountered this unspeakable pain."You’re also not seeing what’s happening to the families impacted and we want to continue to bring that to light and show how important it is to know what the families are also going through," Angelita Byrd, Engagement Rep for Sixx Degrees Media, said.Movita Johnson-Harell is a five-time co-victim of homicide.

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