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An Impromptu Wake

A homeless man hangs himself from a tree at night in the city to close out the year. At dawn a passerby uses a cell phone to post his body on social media. By noon 83,000 people attend his wake. Donal Mahoney

Copyright © | Year Posted 2017




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