Chad Harral died in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 5, 2020, and the weight of that date is the kind that doesn’t fade with the turning of a calendar page. A life doesn’t end neatly when a headline moves on or when the initial shock quiets down. It lingers in the corners of a home where his voice used to be, in the routines that suddenly feel hollow, and in the small, ordinary places that now carry the ache of absence.
He was a 43-year-old Black male, and he mattered in all the ways peop
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