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Which came first: the chicken or the egg? If all chickens hatch from eggs and all chicken eggs are laid by chickens, how do you determine which is the cause and which is the effect?
Knowing what came first, what was the catalyst for everything that followed, would define the lives and choices of the Hayes family.
Last March, a then 13-year-old boy named Carson was doing one of the things he loved most in the world: playing baseball. It was practice on a Thursday afternoon the night before spring break was set to begin.