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    A Rude Introduction to ‘Suicide Doors’

    Aug 30, 2021 2 minutes
    BY DOUG WILSON

    Vern was new to our school in the fall of 1951. Having finished the eighth grade in a country school west of town, he was now a freshman at Chadron High School in northwestern Nebraska.

    Vern was one of those individuals whose personality enabled him to be immediately liked by other students. To the girls, he was very good-looking. To the teachers, he was

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