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The Phone Call From the Hospital — and the Story That Doesn’t Add Up It starts with a phone call. The emergency department at the hospital tells you your child was hurt. The voice on the line says he fell. He hit his head. They are doing what they can. You need to come now. You drive. You fly. You arrive at the intensive care unit and find two dozen young men standing in the hallway. Some of them have bloodshot eyes. Some are covered in mud. They will not look at you. The story they tell — he fell while catching a football, he slipped, it was an accident — is the first version. It will not be the last version. And every version after that one will be a little different, in ways that do not line up, because the truth is that your child was put through a ritual designed to break him, and it broke something that could not be fixed. That is what happened to a family in Hickory, North Carolina in November 2008. A 19-year-old sophomore at Lenoir-Rhyne University, on golf and academic scholarships, was rushed to the emergency department at what was then…