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Article: People tell how they have transcended devastating crimes.
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- The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)
- Article date:
- January 16, 2002
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Byline: Lini S. Kadaba
Lynn Shiner, her two young children murdered by their father, locks away the horror in an imaginary china cabinet.
Leland Kent takes his sorrow over the brutal killing of his half-brother back to North Philadelphia, where he talks about the devastating impact of crime on families and neighborhoods.
Elizabeth Jackson, viciously attacked by her estranged husband, finds joy amid a constant sense of vulnerability.
In such ways, each is finding a way through the dark, dense fog of violent crime _ stories featured in a new book, ``Transcending: Reflections of Crime Victims,'' by Howard Zehr (Good Books, $29.95). Zehr, ...