Fictional Deaths and Real Funerals

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The words stopped me in my tracks.

I’d been hired to write a grant proposal. It seemed like a good match, too: a not-for-profit agency that does work with homicide victims’ families in an inner-city locale, and a partnership grant between the federal Office of Victims of Crime and a local crime victims’ resource center to provide direct services to homicide survivors and victims’ families.