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The Target of a Hate Crime, She Was Labeled as a Witness

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By Thacher Schmid Verified
| New Lines Magazine Verified
It was supposed to be a good day — two teenage friends out on a lark, a Friday afternoon trip to the mall. Walio Mohamed, who was 17, slung her book bag, stuffed with her high school planner and a copy of Jack London’s “Call of the Wild,” over her shoulder as she and Destinee Mangum, then 16, boarded a MAX commuter train in Portland, Oregon. The two laughed joyfully, heads leaning into each other — Mangum sporting a bejeweled cloth headband; Mohamed wearing a black cotton hijab.
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The Phone | By Our Readers | Issue 566 | The Sun Magazine

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By Lori Romero, Thacher Schmid Verified, Elie Piha, Paige Le
| The Sun Magazine Verified
In honor of The Sun’s fiftieth year in print, we’re revisiting topics that have appeared in past issues and reprinting some of the original responses. “The Telephone” first ran in our January 1990 issue. — Ed. When I was sixteen, I had a landline phone in my bedroom, but I shared the number with the hair salon my mom operated out of our house. My calls were always being interrupted by people wanting to schedule haircuts or my nosy little sister eavesdropping.
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Confessions of a Journalist Haunted by a Double Killing

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By Thacher Schmid Verified
| Narratively
“The ‘Insane Pirate’ Drifter and the Double Killing at the Fourplex” — my third piece for Narratively — began to torment me after I took on the assignment. Whether I’m writing about housing, the lack of housing, or a bloody double homicide in a basement, a sense of place is crucial. And this place I spent so much time investigating just has an ominous feeling to it.
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