At the start of October, Kristen Coe and her husband, Mark, opened their home to friends and family and neighbors for a backyard gathering and neighborhood scavenger hunt.

Their daughter’s second-grade teacher came. Their son’s rowing coach came. The social worker from their kids’ middle school came. The woman who shared fourth-grade room-mom duties with Coe came.

“I walked into the backyard and saw people from all the paths of the life I’ve walked,” Coe said. “In the moment it felt very intense and very cooperative and collaborative, and like such a gift.”

This year marks the 10-year anniversary of their son Hunter’s death. Hunter died by suicide when he was 24 years old, and his family has spent the last decade making sense and meaning of his life and their loss.

Community, Coe said,

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