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Full disclosure: I’ve known Roddy McKay, an old friend of my father’s, for all my life. In fact, like him, I was a child laborer. I helped build the addition to his Del Rey Oaks house while 11 years old, though $7 an hour was far more generous than the 2 cents a week he got (see story, p. 22…

Last Feb. 22, a California State University-Monterey Bay police officer was called to a dormitory on a report of a student in the throes of a suicidal crisis. Between the time that officer reached the student’s door and the student was placed in an ambulance, there are only five people who know what happened inside that dorm room – and the stories diverge so wildly that, as of now, it’s impossible to know the truth.

When 26-year-old Cheryl Strayed walked off a highway…