Alan Joseph Blanton, a 27-year-old man, was born on June 20, 1979, and his life ended on January 13, 2007, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. His name appears in the quiet language of an obituary that gives almost nothing away: it lists his dates, affirms that he was “deeply loved and will be missed,” and invites mourners to a memorial service at South Life Church on South Walker Avenue a week after his death. In that brief public notice, the formal record of his passing is reduced to a handful of
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