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From Gruesome Tragedy Emerges a New Life in Politics

William Petit Jr., a representative in Connecticut’s legislature, heads to a meeting at the Legislative Office Building in Hartford, Conn., Feb. 9, 2018. For Petit, whose wife and daughters were murdered in a home invasion in 2007, it was a long, painful road from the aftermath of one of the most shocking crimes in Connecticut’s history to a seat in the state’s House of Representatives. (Jessica Hill/The New York Times)