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Read this excerpt from the article "Clemente's Impact Wanes in Puerto Rico 40 Years after His Death."

In the days that followed, as Clemente's death was accepted as reality, a photo of his 7-year-old son Roberto Jr. kissing a poster with his father's picture became as heart-wrenching and iconic in Puerto Rico as the image of JFK Jr. saluting his father's coffin was in the U.S.

Which is the best source to use to enhance the information in this excerpt?
A) a magazine article about JFK Jr.
B) a copy of the image of Clemente’s son
C) a website describing Puerto Rican photographers
D) an almanac entry about Clemente’s baseball career

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B) a copy of the image of Clemente’s son
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"Clemente´s impact wanes in Puerto Rico 40 years after his death" is a newspaper article that was published in the Sports section of USA Today, on December 27th, 2012 and it was written by journalist Jorge L. Ortiz. This article is a remembrance article that talks about what the writer experienced several years previously, when he was still an 11-year-old, when, at a New Year´s Eve party, he learned about the accident and disappearance of sports star and one of Puerto Rico´s biggest celebrities, Roberto Clemente. It was then found that the plane that he had boarded with supplies to take to Nicaragua as a relief effort, crashed into the ocean and that Clemente had passed away. Ortiz also makes emphasis on the huge impact that the death of this man had on the island, how it affected many because people were so proud of their star, and to make people feel the loss as tangibly as he and his fellow Puerto Ricans did, he likens it to how Americans felt when they saw JFK Jr. saluting his father´s coffin. With this, Ortiz welcomes his American readership to experience the pain of that loss by remembering their own feelings at the loss of such a beloved and iconic American and at seeing his son having to say goodbye. In order to enhance these feelings, then, it would be appropriate to use as a source B: a copy of the image of Clemente´s son, kissing the poster of his father, because it further links the two children and thus links the emotions felt on both sides.

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