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Bad Luck on an Otherwise Fine Night

One evening, Matt Shaunfield overdosed on heroin and died. In the past two years, as many as ten more kids in Plano, Texas, have died for their love of the drug. This had never happened to Plano. It also had never happened to Austin or Orlando or Boulder or any of the other places in America designed to keep harm away.

March 1 1998 CHARLES BOWDEN Eugene Richards
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Bad Luck on an Otherwise Fine Night

One evening, Matt Shaunfield overdosed on heroin and died. In the past two years, as many as ten more kids in Plano, Texas, have died for their love of the drug. This had never happened to Plano. It also had never happened to Austin or Orlando or Boulder or any of the other places in America designed to keep harm away.

March 1 1998 CHARLES BOWDEN Eugene Richards


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