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Leslie Y. Gutterman:
Responding to emotional devastation
Published in the Providence Journal.
Saturday, February 12, 2011
By Leslie Y. Gutterman
Arthur and Laurie Gross received the telephone call that all parents dread. A year ago, on Feb. 12, 2010, they were awakened to learn the heartbreaking news that their son Avi, a 21-year-old freshman at Brown University, had been struck and killed at the intersection of Thayer and Hope streets, on the East Side of Providence. Marika Baltscheffsky, 19, an exchange student from Sweden, was injured as the two were hit by an SUV driven by a man later charged with drunk driving.
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