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The graduation dress was black. René Patla had picked it out with her daughter Olivia weeks earlier, the two of them imagining the walk across the stage, the diploma, the wide-open summer ahead. Olivia never wore it to commencement. Her parents buried her in it instead.
Olivia Patla was 18 years old and a single day shy of her Clovis North High School graduation when she died of a fentanyl overdose in 2021. A 17-year-old friend, according to the family and law enforcement sources, let her die – refusing to call 911 and recording video as it happened…