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| | Neighbors together shield flame of hope (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) |
 | | Young's 18-year-old son, Javon Thompson, a student at Carnegie Mellon University, was shot to death in December 1994, reportedly for refusing to support the Bloods street gang. |
 | | A few years after his death, his mother founded Tree of Hope, an organization devoted to assisting victims of violence. |
 | | Three years ago, when my life was in great upheaval, I moved to the North Side, hoping to salvage something, anything, from a crumbling building, a crumbling neighborhood, a crumbling marriage. |
| www.post-gazette.com /pg/04245/371044.stm (800 words) |
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