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Tyler Clementi's Parents To Appear On 'CBS Sunday Morning'
Nearly five years after their son committed suicide, they say they're 'not even near healed.'

In a candid interview on ”CBS Sunday Morning,” Jane Clementi said she is ”not even near healed” regarding her son’s 2010 suicide.
“I don’t know what ’healed’ will be like,” Clementi said in a Broadwayworld.com report. “I don’t even know that there’s a word for healing. I think it’s learning to live through the pain.”
Tyler Clementi jumped off the George Washington Bridge after his Rutgers University roommate, Dharun Ravi, broadcast intimate moments between Clementi and another man.
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The Clementi family wil talk about their son’s life, his fears about revealing he was gay, and provide advice for other families in similar situations, the website reported.
The family founded the Tyler Clementi Foundation four years ago. The non-profit works to put an end to bullying, both online and offline.
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The foundation has launched a new campaign called Day 1, which is meant to get people to stand up on the first day of school or work and say they will never treat others differently because of their religious beliefs, gender, or the way they dress or talk.
In related news, the state Supreme Court has ruled the state bias-intimidation law, which was a crucial part in convicting Ravi on privacy invasion and bias intimidation charges in 2012, has been ruled constitutional, nbcnews.com. The ruling opens the door to the possibility that the conviction be overturned.
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