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Article: Friends, families memorialize dead loved ones on T-shirts.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- June 10, 1997
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PHILADELPHIA _ Nearly every day, Corine Toms puts on a custom-painted T-shirt and turns herself into a walking shrine to her dead boy, ``Worm.''
Since May 30, 1995, when he was shot by another teen-ager in Philadelphia's Germantown neighborhood, she has built a memorial wardrobe of four shirts. There's a simple, short-sleeved T-shirt bearing the letters ``RIP'' and the dates of his birth and death, and another emblazoned with a big red cross. For winter, there's a sweatshirt with a silk screen of her son in a white suit, standing in the living room; ``In Loving Memory Of'' is written across the back.
But her favorite, the one she wears most, is ...