Poetic Obituaries: Troy West loved to draw, capturing

family members and inanimate objects on his sketching pad. He wrote poems with such flair that his male friends asked him to pen love letters to their girlfriends so they could pass the sweet words off as their own. And he often spent hours listening to his vast music collection, smooth oldies that reminded him of his days growing up in Dorchester.

from The Boston Globe: Violence, grief, and disbelief in Dorchester

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