[...] After all, she lives beneath the suicide bridge. Since its construction in 1981, the Y-Bridge has served as the launch site for 43 suicides and countless more attempts.
But unlike most bridges that seduce jumpers, the bodies here don’t fall into rivers, lakes, or forests. They fall onto buildings and houses, and into backyards, like some weird, ominous plague.
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Grohol, J. (2005). The Suicide Bridge. Psych Central. Retrieved on May 25, 2012, from http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2005/07/25/the-suicide-bridge/
Grohol, J. (2005). The Suicide Bridge. Psych Central. Retrieved on May 25, 2012, from http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2005/07/25/the-suicide-bridge/
