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Judith Foster stands on the porch of her mother’s house in Dorchester, Boston, 2022. Her son, Paul Anthony Fyffe Jr., was killed in Feb. 2013, just three months before his college graduation. His murder remains unsolved. The tragedy spurred Foster to pledge to graduate college on her son’s behalf, which thrust her into a lifelong pursuit of hope, community and continued conversation about the things that make life worth living. “When faced with devastation, loss, and seemingly insurmountable odds,” said Foster, “that can bring despair, anxiety, all of the negative emotions…and so if we have something to hold onto, that hope that things will get better, hope that things will change, hope for something new, hope for something different – out of the pain, out of the suffering, out of the sorrow…hope is the one intangible thing that we all have that costs us nothing.”