ANDREA HARVEY, twenty-eight years old, embraced every opportunity to improve herself and those around her. She contributed to her community as a respected high-school math teacher, a promising student, an accomplished musician, an artist, a gourmet vegan cook, traveler, devoted daughter, loving sister, niece, granddaughter, and kind friend. Her friends called her "Renaissance Woman," and spoke of her as one who had an open and generous heart and who tolerated nearly all personal failings in others-save prejudice.

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