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Vicki Smith
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Source:
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Associated Press
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Date:
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07/17/2006
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Long feature
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This story makes links from one man's suicide to the demise of his community to the death of American heavy manufacturing.
This is a effective example of how narrative can flesh out, give dignity to, people who feel they are, as a central character says in this story, "just a number in someone's book." The story also uses narrative to make human a larger economic story, that of the decline of American heavy manufacturing and the towns that were built around it.
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