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Why does an infant die of malnutrition? Why does an eight-year-old hold a knife to his brother's throat? Or a mother push her cherished daughter twenty-three floors to her death? Marc Parent, a city caseworker, searched the streets--and his heart--for the answers, and shares them in this... read more

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First Sentence

MY ROOMMATES WERE JUST ROLLING out of bed on a crisp September Sunday when I felt for work just before noon.

Authors & Contributors

  1. Marc Parent (Author)

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  1. casework
  2. memoirs
  3. social commentary 
 

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