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From the Free Lance-Star:

J. Rashad Frazier, 19, of Spotsylvania County, died Friday, July 28, 2006, at the University of Virginia Hospital. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at A. L. Bennett Funeral Home.

I didn’t know Rashad that well, but we shared a Latin class when he was a goofy freshman and I was a too-cool-for-school senior. We weren’t friends, so I won’t try to make it sound like we were, but I will say this: I’ll always remember his omnipresent smile. The kid couldn’t have frowned if he had wanted to, and even when he pushed my buttons, it was hard to really get angry at him.

Today, Courtland loses yet another son, and I am once again reminded of my own mortality. Rest in peace, Rashad.