Murray girls carry wisdom of mother killed in storm

By Ellen McCarthy
Updated August 20 2014 - 10:08pm, first published 9:17pm

Washington: Tie-dyed sheets line the back of a suburban classroom, where a group of preteen girls sit discussing some of the weightier topics of adolescent life: Why do we feel the need to conform? Is it harder to stick up for ourselves or for someone else? What does it really mean to be beautiful?