Take Lingzi Chen’s valediction for a cobbler forced to abandon his business or Eleni Balakrishnan’s farewell to David Inocencio, a giant in the field of youth justice, gone too soon at 59.

Source: https://missionlocal.org/2023/12/staff-picks-mission-locals-favorite-mission-local-stories-of-2023/

This combination of undated photos provided by their families shows, from left, Martin Richard, 8, Krystle Campbell, 29, and Lingzi Lu, a Boston University graduate student.

Source: https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/04/13/survival-diaries-decade-on-boston-marathon-bombing-echoes/