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“Smith, 34.”

Those two items caught my eye as I scrolled through the New York Times piece that detailed the lives of the five victims murdered in the Capital Gazette newsroom.

You see, I am “Smith, 34” in a way. I am a Smith. I am 34 years old. I work at a newspaper, in the newsroom. I wasn’t really the Smith 34 in question, though. Rebecca Smith, 34, was. She was hired as a sales a…

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