A Crime in the Neighborhood by Suzanne Berne (1318 words, 2 pages)
It was the summer of 1972 when Spring Hill, a Washington, D.C., suburb, got its first taste of an increasingly violent, insecure modern world. The quiet residential area, whose inhabitants traditionally left their doors unlocked and spent the summers attending one another's cookout, wasrocked by the news that 12-year-old Boyd ...
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