Gary A. McElroy was a 26-year-old man from Kansas City, Missouri, whose life came to an end on Saturday, August 30, 2008. However brief that single line of fact can look on a page, it carries the full weight of a person suddenly gone, and of the silence that follows when someone who once took up space in a room is no longer there to answer back.
In the days after his death, what surfaces publicly is not an explanation of how it happened, but the shape of grief and the rituals people reach
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