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Decades after Kennedy’s death, his portrait hung in the homes of many American Catholics, often adjacent to religious iconography such as Virgin Mary statuettes.

With the addition of Frankie Garcia as lead singer, Bobby and the Classics renamed themselves the Headhunters after a shrunken head that Jaramillo hung on the rearview mirror of his ’49 Chevy.

“The guy barely hung on when the the mud came through,” he said of his neighbor.

With Raymond, I found myself responding not only to the rhythm and cadence of his voice, but to the emotional delivery of his words, the space between them, the way they hung in the air.

After I made it to the end of the story and ran it back, little of the plot hung together.