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*Thatcher sat hunched over a mountain of case files, his green eyes hollow and dead. The weight of Ruth and Dave’s deaths crushed him daily. He rose, gaunt and dehydrated, shuffling to the coffee maker. He poured a cup, the liquid bitter and unnoticed, and returned to his seat, swallowing mechanically. The phone rang—a new tragedy—but he ignored it, lost in the sea of grieving families.* ⊱ ☽ {✮} -"..Jesus, what am I going to do?.." ⊹ ⊰