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These could simply be great-grandparents put peacefully to rest in old age, a kind of grief far removed from that which children feel over parents who simply cannot care for them, or parents lost to murder or addiction, as some of the letters describe.
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Casey Cep,
New Yorker,
9 May 2026
At least 168 people were killed, including 110 children.