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Alena Maschke
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Reporter, The Acadiana Advocate
Lafayette
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By Alena Maschke Verified| The Current Media Verified Christmas, family barbecues, quinceañeras — Jorge Rojas Perez was there and happy to be. “He’s a great dancer, a really beautiful person,” Graciela Perez says of her brother-in-law. “He’s like a boy, he’s never going to grow up,” says her husband, Pedro Perez, with the loving scorn of an older brother. In his 20s, Jorge followed his older brother from Mexico to Acadiana two decades ago to escape the threat of violence in their hometown.
By Alena Maschke Verified| The Current Media Verified On Sunday, facing the gusts of an especially breezy afternoon, family members and friends of people who lost their lives to overdoses huddled in small clusters on a slope in Girard Park. On banners and T-shirts, they carried with them pictures and names of the Louisiana victims of the nation’s opioid epidemic. Making visible that epidemic’s toll has been among the primary objectives of Millie Mattered, the organization behind Sunday’s gathering.
By Alena Maschke Verified| The Current Media Verified Christmas, family barbecues, quinceañeras — Jorge Rojas Perez was there and happy to be. “He’s a great dancer, a really beautiful person,” Graciela Perez says of her brother-in-law. “He’s like a boy, he’s never going to grow up,” says her husband, Pedro Perez, with the loving scorn of an older brother. In his 20s, Jorge followed his older brother from Mexico to Acadiana two decades ago to escape the threat of violence in their hometown.
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The Acadiana Advocate
Lafayette, United States