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He is deeply curious about everything and everyone he meets. What they all share is a commitment to “mostly truth” and the belief that digging deep to find a real story—whether it’s located in your memory, on dusty archive shelves, in Russian literature, in a slum in Mumbai—is a task worth undertaking.
In the process of reporting the book, Skloot befriended Lacks’ descendants. by Paul Kalanithi
A mythos grew up around the school shooting, the deadliest up to that point, almost entirely fictional, and much of it difficult to dispel.