One day, in the summer of 2018, at a small newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland, staff was doing what they do.

One reporter was writing the annual guide to local government agencies, another was putting out the results of a primary election.

And then, right in the middle of the day, a man with a gun shot his way into their office and killed five people.

Hours later, one of the survivors, Selene San Felice, was on CNN.

Selene, where were you and what did you first hear?

I mean, I remember I was working at my desk when I heard the shots and it took a couple of hours to get to the hospital.

First, she tells Anderson Cooper her story.

But then, at one point, she sort of interrupts herself and says this terrible truth about mass shootings.

This is going to be a story for how many days less than a week.

People will forget about us after a week.

People will forget about us.

Selene was saying this nine months after the shooting at a concert in Las Vegas, four months after the high school shooting in Parkland, Florida.

She knew how this was going to go.

And I just don't know what I want right now, right? But I'm going to need more than a couple days of news coverage and some thoughts and prayers.

Because our whole lives have been shattered.

So what does happen to people like Selene after the news coverage ends?

To answer that, we spent two years reporting on the staff at her newspaper, the Capitol Gazette.

We wanted to know what's it like to go back to work.

Chase asked me something like, we are putting out a paper tomorrow, right?

And I remember saying it a little defensively and just a little angrily.

I was like, yes, we are putting out a paper tomorrow.

What if someone's sending us more death threats or what if somebody sends me a death threat and I don't see it?

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