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Heidi Stevens: 'It doesn't make the pain go away, but it makes it a little better': 29 years after girl's death, a community garden grows strong

CHICAGO - Zoey Holmquist-Kuhn, 11, unearthed a slimy white slug and could not have been happier about it.

"I love slugs and worms and ants and spiders and flies and butterflies and moths and caterpillars," she told me. "I like slimy stuff and dirt."

She was in her element, surrounded by a dozen of her fellow Girl Scouts from Troop 25174, working in a garden at the corner of Kenwood Avenue and 56th Street next to the playground at William Ray Elementary School.

Audrey Tian and Bayaan El-Bawab, both 10, worked alongside Zoey, digging and yanking, digging and yanking some more, until the threesome,

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