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The Inside Story of Jocelyn Flores, the Tragic Teen Who Inspired XXXTentacion’s Hit

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She took her own life while visiting the rapper, who memorialized her death in a track before he was killed in a shooting.

At 11:20 p.m. on May 13, 2017, two young men and a girl checked into a Hampton Inn. It was a Saturday night, just before Mother’s Day, and the hotel looked like pretty much every Hampton Inn in the world: tan walls, turquoise upholstery, neatly cellophaned apples that could have...

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