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Mother, baby die in leap from high-rise

Suicide notes beg forgiveness

Mike Farmer, pointing to the Devonshire apartment building on Washington Street downtown, said that seeing a woman and child fall to their deaths yesterday was 'the saddest thing I've ever seen in my life.' At right, passersby and members of the news media gathered in front of the luxury 42-story building. (Globe Staff Photos / L: Dominic Chavez; R: Essdras M. Suarez)
By David Abel and Andrea Estes
Globe Staff / July 22, 2005

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A 28-year-old mother grabbed her 9-month-old daughter late yesterday afternoon and jumped from a window of their 24th-floor apartment in a downtown Boston luxury high-rise, police said. Both the woman and her child were killed. (Full article: 666 words)

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