Raul Roche, 48, gender unknown, died in Kansas City, Missouri. That is all the concrete detail available here, and it feels painfully small for a life that was unquestionably larger than a line of text. A person is not a placeholder. A person is voice, habits, jokes, favorite meals, routines, people they called when something good happened, people they called when something went wrong. Yet what remains in this moment is a name and an age, and the stark fact that he is gone.
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