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Into The Light

By Tim Keown

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

The two men see themselves as kids again, little boys bunking in the downstairs bedroom of a tarpaper house on a hillside in Appalachia, Va. They stand outside the bedroom's single-pane window, hands cupped at their temples, peering inside at the warped and sloped floorboards, the peeling paint, the cramped spot where their bunk bed once stood. They're TJ and JJ again, standing next to each other, big men with outsize arms who make a living by running away from bigger men. They're remarkably s ...

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