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Today's story is one that absolutely rattled Radford University in Virginia.

Best friends living in an off-campus apartment ended with alcohol, drugs, murder, and doing cocaine with the devil.

Friendships, like any relationship, can go through rough patches.

And when you think about what all is involved in living the college life,

friendship will probably be somewhere near the top of that list.

It's hard to go through college and not have at least one good friend.

The more the better.

And to have a best friend, someone that helps you study, someone to hang out with, go to parties with, laugh together,

hold your hair back when you throw up four loco in the shrubbery. My point is, college life is meant to be a time

of learning, fun, and friends, and sometimes

experimentation.

If anyone ever told you that college is all sunshine rainbows, though, they're lying to you.

I'm sure you're aware that college causes stress and insomnia for many students.

Combating that isn't easy, and people do it in many ways.

One of those ways, like I mentioned before, is relieving that stress, hanging out with friends. Another is drugs. One of the

people you're going to hear about today, I apologize in advance for setting off your smart speakers.

Her name is Alexa Cannon. Alexa and her BFF,

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