Classmate of Boston Bombing Suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Struggling to Reconcile Friend She Knew

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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the younger suspect of the Boston bombings, graduated from Cambridge Rindge and Latin School in 2011. Rebecca Mazur was his classmate in an Advanced Placement Language and Composition class. She considered Dzhokhar a friend. Now she’s struggling to reconcile the teenager she knew in class and at parties with the image she’s seeing on television screens.

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