Two lives behind a curtain
"There was no sense their lives were falling apart," says Sara Jane Ward, above, in describing her friends, Clinton McCracken and Carrie John. John's September death after an allergic reaction revealed the drug use of the couple, who worked as addiction researchers at the University of Maryland and were engaged to be married.
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