Families fly flags to remember loved ones lost to overdoses

Surrounded by more than 22,000 purple flags on Boston Common representing the lives of Bay Staters lost to the opioid epidemic in the last decade, Kar-Kate Parenteau wore a beaming photo of her husband Marc, who died of an accidental fentanyl overdose in 2017.

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