Edgar Coronado

Edgar Coronado was a 21-year-old man from Adelphi, Maryland, who died on September 16, 2007.

There’s a particular kind of silence that follows a death like this. It doesn’t feel like quiet in the peaceful sense. It feels like a missing piece that never stops pulling at the edges of a family’s life. Twenty-one is still so close to the beginning. It’s an age where a person is usually stretching into independence—making plans that feel big enough to last forever, building friendshi ...

Coronado, Edgar F., 21