A Teenage Prank, a Text Message, and the Death of My Cousin Jacob

A week ago tonight, my 17-year-old cousin Jacob Meadows, a high school student in Ashland, Missouri, died by his own hand as the end result of an unfortunate chain of circumstances that were touched off by an ill-conceived cell phone text message. What happened, as I understand it from a letter from Jacob’s father, my [...]

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