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LOS ANGELES – On the beautiful spring day that her bestie Charles “Chuck” Jackson was laid to rest in South L.A., Clarice Kavanaugh spent most of it restless in her car.
Staring at her phone behind rolled-up windows, she watched as the pastor delivered the eulogy online. Then as ma
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On the beautiful spring day that her bestie Charles “Chuck” Jackson was laid to rest in South L.A., Clarice Kavanaugh spent most of it restless in her car.
Staring at her phone behind rolled-up windows, she watched as the pastor delivered the eulogy online. Then as masked pallbearers carried his coffin from the funeral home. And finally as loved ones came and went from the cemetery.
Only a few weeks earlier, Jackson had been living it up in the mountains of Idaho with fellow members of the National Brotherhood of Skiers. And only a few weeks before that, the besties had gone to see the Temptations in concert just like they did every January.
On the beautiful spring day that her bestie Charles “Chuck” Jackson was laid to rest in South L.A., Clarice Kavanaugh spent most of it restless in her car.
Staring at her phone behind rolled-up windows, she watched as the pastor delivered the eulogy online. Then as masked pallbearers car