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When Milan Bolden-Morris walked into Pahokee High Schools prom, she knew her dress would get attention.

Not for the sparkles or the cut like others that night, but for the faces of Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice and others displayed across her dress. Faces of those whose deaths sparked the Black Lives Matter movement.

As the 17-year-old smiled for the cameras, she said she knew the dress was bigger than prom or her.

Every life on this earth is precious. God created us all as gifts, Bolden-Morris said. When a mother loses a child or a child loses a parent, especially when its under unnecessary circumstances, their lives shouldnt be overlooked.

Friday evening, Bolden-Morris wore the dress created by local designer Terrence Torrence, who said hes had the idea for a while. When he was asked to design a dress for Bolden-Morris, a Cardinal Newman senior basketball star who is the Palm Beach Post Small Schools All-Area player of the year, he said he had an idea and wanted to bounce it off of her. Bolden-Morris, who got a full scholarship to Boston College and will study pre-med, she said she loved the idea.

I already knew this dress was way bigger than me or how I looked in it or how I felt in it, she said. I knew the purpose was to bring awareness. To highlight these things going on in America.

Bolden-Morris was invited to Pahokee High prom by a family friend because she cant make it to Cardinal Newmans prom.

Torrence and Bolden-Morris both knew the dress would garner attention, but didnt know it would get this big. Snoop Dogg shared a photo of Bolden-Morris on his Instagram, and Essence and CNN wrote stories about it. Most important for both Bolden-Morris and Torrence was the call from Trayvon Martins mother, Sybrina Fulton.

I just thought, Wow, this is amazing, Bolden-Morris said. God is really using me for things that are bigger than me.

She said she was honored to have such an influential person with such courage and power to praise her for her small act. Morris said she was just the model conveying Torrences message.

Torrence, who splits his time between West Palm Beach and Atlanta, said he was so happy to hear Fulton loved the dress. Above all other comments and praise, Fultons was the most important to him. On Torrences dress, he displayed a photo of Trayvon Martin in a hoodie as the most prominent figure.

Trayvon, I remember that whole movement. It was the first time I can remember people coming together for someone killed that way, he said. I remember being in L.A. and wearing my hoodie for Trayvon.

Though many of the faces included on the dress garnered the national spotlight like Sandra Bland and Mike Brown, the faces of locals Corey Jones and Henry Bennett III rested there as well. Torrence, who grew up in Belle Glade like Bolden-Morris, said it was important to remind people police violence happens at home too.

The ones I chose, they all spoke to me. The look on their faces all had this glow, he said. At the end of the day, you want to always remember their faces and their stories. Everyone on that dress has a story.

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