Jonas Shaffer, The Baltimore Sun
BALTIMORE — The swagger came out at dinnertime. Mark Andrews, maybe 8 or 9 years old, was talking about soccer, about where he stacked up in the sport he loved. The details of the boast that would come to define Andrews’ life are hazy now, lost to the years, but his conviction cuts through the fog of memory like a beacon.
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