By 10:30 AM on Monday, the St. Jude Sentinel newsroom had become an oral history studio. Tessa sat at the central conference table with her laptop, a broadcast-grade Shure microphone, and her reporting notebook. Sitting across from her was Mateo Torres—a twenty-one-year-old mechanical engineering junior from East Boston whose name had appeared on Row 414 for an unauthorized thirty-one-thousand-dollar promissory note. Mateo was a brilliant robotics scholar whose father worked…
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