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The news reached the community quietly at first, then spread with the kind of shock that leaves people struggling to process what they are hearing. A fourteen-year-old girl was gone. Not after a long illness. Not after a sudden accident on the road. But after a decision that, to her, likely felt small, harmless, even ordinary.
By the time the full details began to emerge, disbelief had turned into grief, and grief into a deep, aching sense of regret shared by everyone who heard her story.
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