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Dennis McFadden The girl who was found dead at the base of the tower had by all accounts lived a short, unhappy life. Her name was Annie Reed, she was nineteen years old and about to enter her sophomore year of college. She was skinny and quiet with mousy hair and a scattering of pimples on her bony cheeks, and she might have grown into a beautiful woman had she had the chance—she was “just coming out of her shell,” her mother said. The first time in her life she’d ever been the center of attention happened last fall when