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Flags, Fellowship kick off Purple September

By Debra Messick
Posted 9/6/24

The color purple reigned at the corner of Race and Cedar Streets in downtown Cambridge Wednesday, September 4.

A field of 519 predominantly purple flags fluttered in the late day breeze representing Dorchester’s drug overdose victims since 2017; 85 white flags memorialized the fatalities among them.

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