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OTL: 'Lock And Load'

By Elizabeth Merrill

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

AN DIEGO -- It is safe for him to come out now at Mission Beach. Surfers dip their boards into a clear blue ocean that touches the sky. Panhandlers wander around with empty Starbucks cups. That thing they say about time and wounds? Maybe it's true. Because Ed Hochuli is treading through the California sand, loose and out there in shorts and sandals, and nobody feels compelled to hurl a rock at him. It's sort of poetic that Hochuli has a beach condo here, in the very town that wanted his white ...

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