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Updated February 7, 2023

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The Protestant section of the MetFern Cemetery, pictured in June 2021.

The Quest to Honor Disabled Patients Buried in Anonymous Graves

Historically, institutions often interred their dead with simple markers. In Massachusetts, researchers are learning about the patients' lives and the facilities' fraught legacies.
by Asia London Palomba

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