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Bearing the Unbearable: Cathy Rickmon and Martha Bullock
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This article is part of an ongoing series of photo stories by Sabree Hill about mothers who have lost children to gun crime in New Orleans. Many of the mothers now hope to become a “new army” against street violence through the Helping Mothers Heal group at the Family Center of Hope. A version of this article first appeared in Gambit. Cathy Rickmon and Martha Bullock had been casual friends for years, but a burst of violence in Mid-City sealed their fates together forever. “We weren’t close until the tragedy of our sons,” Rickmon said.