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Remembering Papa: Northern California’s elderly face hidden epidemic of gun suicides

By Ana B. Ibarra, CalMatters

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By the early afternoon of her 59th birthday, Kelly Frost had a sinking feeling in the pit of her stomach. She had lunch with girlfriends near her home in Douglas City — a rural community nestled among the ponderosa pines of the Shasta-Trinity National Forest in Northern California. But she kept thinking about her “Daddy-o,” Jeffrey Butler, her…

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