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LIVING IN HOPE -- AND FEAR

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 19891101
Author:Susan Trausch, Globe Staff

It's been over a week since Carol Stuart was killed, and we're supposed to be "getting back to normal," whatever that means.

Have to. Those are the rules. Edna St. Vincent Millay said it: "Life must go on. I forget just why."

We haven't yet absorbed the randomness of the deaths in the California earthquake, and yet, ready or not, the mind must compute the unspeakable in Boston's Mission Hill section. Death has taken its random walk there many times before, but hadn't grabbed us by the lapels in quite the same way.

Carol Stuart, seven months pregnant, died of gunshot wounds ...

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