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By Patricia Burke Sometimes, we learn to associate a phrase with a trauma…for example, sites of mass shootings or natural disasters, like Sandy Hook Elementary School, Hurricane Sandy, or Pompeii. Those living in Boston in 1989 not only remember a horrific crime, but the discomforting realization that through prejudice, a community at large can be an unwitting perpetrator. In 1989, in Boston, Charles Stuart made a frantic call to 911, stating that his wife had been shot. “The killing of Carol Stuart, who was pregnant at the time, on October 23, 1989, had touched off a national outrage when Charles...