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NASHVILLE, Tennessee - At 3:25 am on April 22, a Waffle House in Nashville joined the growing list of cherished US citizen places morphed into the site of a massacre. And Chuck Cordero, a regular customer, joined the growing list of survivors left traumatized and struggling with how to move on.

Children often have little choice but to return to their schools after a mass shooting and employees must return to their offices. But 51-year-old Cordero thought at first he'd never come back here. Then he found himself again and again back at his Waffle House No 2,267 in the ubiquitous chain of yellow and black storefronts that are open 24/7, 365 days a year.