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Carmen Capo woke to loud banging on her window. It was 6 a.m., and her son\u2019s friend was outside. There had been a shooting at a nightclub, the young woman said, and Capo\u2019s 20-year-old son had been injured. Frantic, Capo raced to the hospital from her Orlando home, not stopping to brush her teeth or put on a bra.<\/p>\n

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When she arrived she learned what every mother most fears: Her son had died. \u201cEven breathing hurts at that moment,\u201d she said of absorbing the news that Luis Omar Ocasio Capo was gone.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is not a day that goes by that I and his four siblings don\u2019t miss him because he left a huge hole in our family,\u201d Capo said in Spanish from her home in Puerto Rico.<\/p>\n

But if there is any bright side to the tragedy, Capo said it\u2019s that Omar\u2019s death has brought the rest of her family closer together. They call each other at least once a day and constantly text, sometimes 20 times a day, she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause we never know when the last \u2018I love you\u2019 will be,\u201d Capo said.<\/p>\n

Omar, the fourth of her five children, was born to be a star, she said.<\/p>\n

He\u2019d just received a callback to be a dancer at Disney World earlier that week. He was studying art at Valencia College and wanted to be an actor and celebrity, she said. He had been dancing with several teams across the country since he was 7 years old.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t want people to remember him as a victim,\u201d Capo said. \u201cI want people to remember him as a star, the brightest one in the sky.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The night of June 11, Omar went to a party with a group of friends. Capo told her son, who still lived at home, to stay with her that night, but he told her he had already promised his friends he would go.<\/p>\n

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At 1:17 a.m. Capo said she sent her son a text, reminding him that he had to work at Starbucks later that day. He texted back saying he was getting ready to leave.<\/p>\n

\u201cI never heard back from him again,\u201d Capo said.<\/p>\n

After his death, Capo moved back to her native Puerto Rico, hoping to escape the constant reminders in Orlando that her son was gone. Moving has been therapeutic, she said. She has lost 72 pounds and benefits from being surrounded by her extended family.<\/p>\n

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Every three months, she visits her son\u2019s grave in Orlando.<\/p>\n

She will be in town for the 10th anniversary of the tragedy. Capo, her four children and six grandchildren have rented a house in Central Florida and will be together to remember Omar. She\u2019s even made t-shirts to celebrate him.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know he will be there with us,\u201d Capo said. \u201cWe have to celebrate life, which he loved to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

But there is still constant heartache.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me, these 10 years have not passed,\u201d Capo said, fighting back tears. \u201cI\u2019m just trying to survive. You have to learn to live like a clown, even though your heart is shattered, you have to smile.\u201d<\/p>\n

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