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Stephen Shepherd and Norman Collins, 15-year-old classmates, headed back to school in Whitesburg in February 1983 after lunch at a nearby fast-food restaurant. The old railroad trestle they were walking on crossed the North Fork of the Kentucky River. Photo by Ron Garrison | Staff