Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
Connie Hedgepeth gripped a hard plastic telephone in the manager’s office at Lowe’s, her fingers tightening in horror.
On the other end of the phone, a crisis counselor from the Chapel Hill, North Carolina Police Department spoke calmly, matter-of-factly. She told Hedgepeth that her youngest daughter, a student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was dead.
“I said, ‘You must have the wrong girl,’” Hedgepeth said. “She told me it was her, and I said, ‘I don’t think so.’”
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