Sensitive treatment of death commendable
I am the maternal aunt of Ricquelle M. Wren, whose June 22 death in a car accident your newspaper reported in a beautiful article on June 24. In a breathtaking twist of fate, Ricquelle died on the morning of her 32nd birthday.
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