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\u201cPeople say to me sometimes, \u2018We don\u2019t go to you because you bury\u00a0those people\u2019<\/em> \u2013 the poor people,\u201d Peter Stefan tells me in the second-floor office of his Worcester, MA funeral home. \u201cI say, \u2018Then don\u2019t come. We don\u2019t need you.\u2019 You bury who you bury.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n That statement might serve as a motto for Stefan, whose weathered appearance seems wholly apropos for a man who, for 41 years, has made a living burying those whose bodies have nowhere else to go \u2013 AIDS patients in the \u201980s and \u201990s; the homeless and impoverished living near his funeral parlor, Graham Putnam & Mahoney, in Main South, one of Worcester\u2019s toughest neighborhoods; and the elder of the two brothers who bombed the Boston Marathon three years ago.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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