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Theirs was the age of confusion, of cocksure invincibility and runaway insecurity. And one by one they fell. Some died loudly, in full view, prey to gunfire or vehicle crashes. Others died in lonely back alleys or squalid motel rooms, casualties of illegal drugs or alcohol binges.
'Think about all the suffering'
The call that parents dread. The hospital. Come quickly. For an instant, Colleen M. Sasso lay in bed frozen.
A fatal fall, a family's anguish
When Francisco Stillman and his five siblings went to live with their grandmother, the 11-year-old was rushing headlong down a dangerous path. Both his parents were incarcerated for long terms and Francisco was bitter and angry, but most of all overcome by a crippling sense of powerlessness.
'He was going downhill'
"It gets ugly in here," warns Julius Domantay, 40, who has spent the last 23 years incarcerated for slaying a San Francisco liquor store owner.
A hellish cacaphony
Amid the flurry of the emergency ward, Raymond Kuykendall slouches against a wall, miserable but stoic, determined to endure the evening with as much grace as he can summon.
A bloody wake-up call
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