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The Trail of Blood That Changed My Life

I was seven when a game of catch led to standing in a puddle of blood while my teenage neighbor lay dying. But I wasn’t too young to understand the stakes of “the life.”

Rodrigo Raygosa
Mar 15, 2016
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Illustration by Alison Rutsch

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