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For 23 years, Janice Blazek lived in a non-descript second-floor two-bedroom apartment in a rental community near the Bell Tower Shops where rents go as low as $1,500 a month. Her neighbors were dumbfounded when they learned that the 88-year-old recluse who died in January was a multi-millionaire.
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In the aftermath of Matthew Shepard’s murder in 1998, people in Laramie, Wyoming rallied together to deal with the tragedy. That, says Director Kody C. Jones, raises a crucial question: “Why does it take tragedy to bring a community together?”
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