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“I should be dead. I should not even be here, but I am,” the Pill Man said. “And I believe it is for a bigger purpose, and that is to help save lives.”

On a recent day, people in the park, perched on chairs, benches, and picnic cloths, gazed at art, sipping drinks and sharing food; their memory of a global pandemic seemed to have faded.

The plan was working. The people found the mural hard to miss, and with each passing hour, new patterns would emerge as contributions came in from little kids to college students to the senior citizenry.