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On Dec. 9, just as the sun was rising, two people were found dead of a suspected drug overdose in a small courtyard along Cumberland Street.
Hours later, all that marked the scene was a terrible banality: a half-eaten meal in styrofoam takeout, the paper bag it likely came in, a dirty toque and two empty shells of the antidote naloxone. No flower, no cross, no hand-written prayer written in haste.
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