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Tragic lesson: ââ?¬Ë?Your life can be altered in a split second’

If Angie Gratzl could make kids understand one thing about the dangers of underage drinking, it’s that bad things can happen to you. She knows, because they happened to her son. Some 15 months ago, during move-in time last year at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, her son Jason, then 18, drank too much at a house party and fell from a second-floor balcony, where a friend told police he had gone to vomit.