ALJAZEERA: University of Virginia junior Dominique Vletter remembers how she and Shelley Goldsmith linked arms with their friends and snaked their way to the front of the crowd of thousands at Echostage — a sprawling nightclub in Washington — in August 2013. Onstage, Swedish DJ duo Dada Life threw inflatable bananas into the crowd, and the friends sang along to its song “So Young, So High.”
They danced for so long, their sweat soaked through their denim shorts. It was hot outside, but inside was worse — and bottles of water cost $5.
The next thing Vletter heard was that Goldsmith had been taken away in an ambulance due to dehydration. She later died of MDMA intoxication… (more)
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