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Article: FAMILY, FRIENDS MOURN MELISSA BENOIT AT HER FUNERAL
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 30, 1990
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KINGSTON - In a stark white church tinged with pink, the
family, friends and neighbors of 13-year-old Melissa Benoit were
reminded yesterday that her joyful life, not her horrible death,
should be their touchstone.
"Is the human being a totally evil thing or something good?"
asked Rev. Walter R. Braman, minister of the First Parish Unitarian
Universalist Church, just down Main Street from the house where
Melissa lived.
"The question I have to ask is, 'Do we measure the human
condition by the wanton, foul acts of someone who lost touch with
the brothers and sisters of his community, or do we measure the
human condition by the laughter, the grace and the love that is
Melissa ...