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Ms Adams was shot twice (Picture: Facebook)

A survivor of the Dunblane massacre has recalled her ordeal.

She remains defiant and refuses to allow gunman Thomas Hamilton ruin her life.

Aimie Adam was just five when Hamilton opened fire in the gym hall of Dunblane Primary School on March 13 1996.

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File photo dated 14/03/1996 of children outside Dunblane Primary School a day after the shooting in which 16 pupils and their teacher were killed. Survivors and relatives of the victims of the Dunblane massacre are trying to "power on" with life as the 20th anniversary of the tragedy approaches. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Saturday March 5, 2016. Some of those caught up in the shooting have spoken about it for the first time in a documentary, and said they are determined to be defined by what they do in life rather than what happened to them. See PA story ANNIVERSARY Dunblane. Photo credit should read: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire
Children outside Dunblane Primary School a day after the shooting Picture: PA)

He killed 16 young pupils and their teacher, Gwen Mayor, before turning the gun on himself.

Ms Adam was shot twice and said she is still traumatised by the attack almost 20 years on.

The 25-year-old told the Scottish Sun on Sunday that she and her classmates had just begun a PE lesson in the gym hall when Hamilton walked in.

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File photo dated 16/03/1996 of people looking at floral tributes lining the road by Dunblane Primary School three days after the shooting in which 16 pupils and their teacher were killed. Survivors and relatives of the victims of the Dunblane massacre are trying to "power on" with life as the 20th anniversary of the tragedy approaches. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Saturday March 5, 2016. Some of those caught up in the shooting have spoken about it for the first time in a documentary, and said they are determined to be defined by what they do in life rather than what happened to them. See PA story ANNIVERSARY Dunblane. Photo credit should read: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire
Mourners looking at floral tributes lining the road by Dunblane Primary School (Picture: PA)

She survived after a teacher told her to crawl into a cupboard.

Ms Adam said: ‘I don’t remember feeling any pain.

‘There was a weird metallic taste in my mouth and a fuzzy tingly feeling all over my body and I knew everything was not right in my leg.

‘You’d think you’d remember something so dramatic but I can’t. It’s probably a good thing.’

Ms Adam was shot in the right buttock and another bullet shattered her right thigh.

She was the last survivor of the massacre to leave hospital and did so in a wheelchair.

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File photo dated 14/03/1996 of two girls comforting each other outside Dunblane Primary School a day after the shooting in which 16 pupils and their teacher were killed. Survivors and relatives of the victims of the Dunblane massacre are trying to "power on" with life as the 20th anniversary of the tragedy approaches. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Saturday March 5, 2016. Some of those caught up in the shooting have spoken about it for the first time in a documentary, and said they are determined to be defined by what they do in life rather than what happened to them. See PA story ANNIVERSARY Dunblane. Photo credit should read: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire
Two girls comforting each other outside Dunblane school (Picture: PA)

After years of recovery, Ms Adam, who is now studying mental health nursing at Aberdeen’s Robert Gordon University, still has a slight limp.

The student said she still sometimes feels guilt for having survived, adding: ‘It is 20 years and I am still living with the devastation of it. Nobody got to choose that day.’

Of Hamilton, she said: ‘I absolutely hate the guy. But he’s dead and can’t do anything to ruin anybody else’s life.

‘He’s in the right place. He cannot ruin my life any more. I definitely haven’t let him.

‘If you fall out with your best friend or split up with your boyfriend, that upsets me more.

‘I have not let him ruin me.’

Next weekend marks two decades since Hamilton’s murder spree in the school.

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