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Apr 3 17 tweets 4 min read
7 years ago, dozens of college students were gunned down in Garissa, Kenya. They should have had their whole lives ahead of them. At the time, with help from their families, I made these Twitter obituaries. At the 7th anniversary, I wish them peace #147notjustanumber
In the days after, the families at Chiromo Mortuary in Nairobi were enduring unfathomable grief. But like anyone who had just lost a loved one, they wanted to talk about the beautiful moments and the young person they loved
I'll never forget the man who figured out what I was doing (interviewing families and publishing 140-letter summaries of these college students' lives) and handed me a hand-written 140-letter tribute to his child

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