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Head Strong

By Seth Wickersham

Friday, October 24, 2008

Go ahead. Try to find a scar, any scar. Here, he'll make it easy for you. He'll tilt his head so the back left side is spotlighted under a stain of April sun searing through his living room window. He'll part his trimmed hair, daring you to spy any scabbed gashes, any stitch marks, any black or blue. Ken Hamlin knows how his head looked in October, after he was in a bar fight that ended when he was beaten unconscious with a metal street sign. He figured the marks would be there for good. But loo ...

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