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Sunday, May 18, would have been Sean Bell’s twenty-fifth birthday. His family celebrated his life with a private party. The observance was attended by Bell’s parents, his fiancée, Nicole Paultre Bell, and their two daughters, and a crowd that included the Reverend Al Sharpton, Governor David Paterson and Representative Charles Rangel.
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“It’s surreal. I never would have thought that my family and I would be at the center of something like this. It’s amazing to me when people come up to me and tell me how I have their support. It all gives me strength to keep going,” Nicole Paultre Bell says.