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Vol. I · No. 1Prolonging the Slow Death of NewspapersEst. 2026

Finding Forgiveness

Tom Hallman Jr.: For years, Heather Brown, 28, thought she had come to terms with the death of her father. She was just 7 when Portland police Officer Tadd Kruger gunned down the man known as Wild Bill Brown. Then in June, an e-mail arrived inviting Heather Brown to Kruger's retirement ceremony. Should she ignore the e-mail and perhaps lose a chance to free herself from her troubled past? Or should she go, and stand before the very people her dad taught her to hate? Her decision would lead to an event no one present had seen or heard of before.

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