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‘This was a curse’: Family of mom who died outside daughter’s high school graduation speak out

‘This was a curse’: Family of mom who died outside daughter’s high school graduation speak out

While attending his sister’s graduation, Marquan Matthews was shocked when his aunt called to inform him that his mother, Jean Byrd, had collapsed. Matthews was waiting for his mother to join him inside the arena.  Jean Byrd died of cardiac arrest “just 200 feet” from her daughter Meilean’s graduation at the Joel Coliseum in Winston-Salem, North…

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