<p>12-year-old&nbsp;Cesar Albarracin Guncay, a 6th grader in Sag Harbor,&nbsp;died during a rafting field trip in the&nbsp;Poconos&nbsp;after&nbsp;the raft overturned in&nbsp;the river.</p>


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