Rafael Torch 1975-2011

The Winter 2012 issue of Contrary is dedicated to the enduring words of our writer, Rafael Torch, who died Dec. 12, at age 36, after fighting cancer for four years. Rafael, thank you for giving the world so much when you had so little time.

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by Dolan Morgan

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by Holli Downs
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by Michael A. Telafici
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by Delaney Nolan
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The Rabbi of Seventy-Second Street

by Bezalel Stern
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by David Alm

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