Dead body in Muddy River

The Urban Pantheist was taking his usual walk along the Muddy River to the Green Line this morning when he spotted what he thought was a mannequin sticking out of the water. He called the police, started toward the train, then turned back:

... An EMT caught up with me and I took him to the site. A very frightened looking man (a familiar face from the park) was there, and I was saying that I thought it was a dummy, the cop shook his head and said, "this man found a note." He explained to other officers that the man had found a backpack with what appeared to be a suicide note in or on it. It wasn't until then that I realized that it wasn't a sick prank, but that I wished that it had been. Some mother's daughter is gone.
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