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DARTMOUTH, Mass. — Nicholas Hemingway never did like being an only child, his mother, Maureen Hemingway remembers.
He grew up surrounded by a group of friends he called his cousins, and at the age of 14, joined the Dartmouth Fire Department as a junior member, where he was surrounded by a fraternity of brothers.
When he died July 16 at age 23 after unexpectedly collapsing at work a few days earlier as a paramedic at the Baltimore Fire Department, many of his SouthCoast friends traveled south to again be by his side. Hemingway said firefighters and others came from many places, as far as Alaska.
Read full story: Dartmouth mom reflects on life of paramedic son Nicholas Hemingway, who was honored after dying on duty in Baltimore