Anthony Pratts, a 38-year-old man, died on September 11, 2021, and was connected in online records to Red Hook, New York. In the digital trail that followed, the bare facts arrived first—name, date, place—then the heavier implication: a gun-violence memorial entry lists the death as a loss to gun violence on that date in Red Hook.
What comes through most clearly is how quickly a life can be reduced to fragments online, and how friends and strangers try to stitch meaning back into the
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