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February 2013
280 Living
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Photo of the month Caleb Edwards plays in the snow with his brother Bradley on Jan. 17. Photo courtesy of Connie Edwards.
Editor’s Note By Madoline Markham
Lost in the valley of the night group, the guy living two A kid from Oak Mountain had died from streets over, the athlete from my third period drug overdose, I heard in October last year. The news class — drugs they were smoking, pills they were took me back to eighth popping, places they were grade science, first period. My usually boisterous going late at night. It was easier for us, and classmates were eerily somber. We had just found our parents, to move from out a close friend of many whispers to talking about what we saw on TV last had died. That time it was a car accident. In the years to night or were planning Madoline for the weekend than come, it would be suicide to truly face an issue as or a drug overdose. With each tragedy among the Oak fragile as this. And so that is why I am grateful that Mountain community, we would mourn, commemorate good memories of him or Kenneth Lucas has so honestly shared her on a yearbook page, and eventually, his story, and his heart, with us in this for those distant enough like me, move month’s cover. His tragedy has not been on to tests, Friday night games and the swept under the rug. It is our hope that latest crush. But different whispers of his words will not just be something our tragedy in the school hallways never community reads, but something each would go away. The girl from youth parent, teacher and student sets aside
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fear of the uncomfortable to discuss and confront. Revisiting the story of Les Miserables in the new film in theatres has me thinking about the tight grip of darkness in our world and on the streets around us, but also of how bright light is when it comes into that darkness. As our community faces tough things together, let’s remember Victor Hugo’s hopeful words that come at his story’s end: “Do you hear the people sing, lost in the valley of the night? It is the music of a people who are climbing to the light. For the wretched of the earth, there is a flame that never dies. Even the darkest night will end, and the sun will rise.”
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