Some months later—at a point at which Tony would perhaps have been out of the hospital anyway—Dan got a phone call from Tony: He was being held in prison on a murder charge. He had burned down the family trailer with his mother, father, and seven-year-old brother still inside; they’d all died. Dan was devastated; indeed, the entire mental health law class was. For a bunch of idealistic law students, some lessons were harder to learn than others, and this one—that “helping people” isn’t always a good thing (or, maybe, that “helping” translates differently from case to case, and must be
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