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Three teen suicides shake Nantucket

Island's losses mirror an alarming rate among Bay State youth

A quote from Eleanor Roosevelt on a wall at Nantucket High School, which got word of the most recent suicide Jan. 8. A quote from Eleanor Roosevelt on a wall at Nantucket High School, which got word of the most recent suicide Jan. 8. (VINCENT DEWITT FOR THE BOSTON GLOBE)
By Anna Badkhen
Globe Staff / January 16, 2008

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NANTUCKET - First the islanders buried Vaughn Mitchell Peterson, a 15-year-old Nantucket High School freshman who hanged himself at his family's home on the windswept hills last February. (Full article: 951 words)

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