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The Origins of Heartbreak

By Cara Malone

Alex McHenry's world stood still the day her father passed. She was 19 studying to be an art teacher and living happily like any other college student. Then abruptly her life was reduced to funeral arrangements depression therapy and the responsibility of caring for her mother who retreated to the couch to take solace in the artificially cheerful hosts on the Home Shopping Network.