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  • Twins Kristen Horsman and Kate Horsman play lacrosse for Dulaney High School. They will separate as they go to different colleges.
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  • Jayleen Myers, 17.<br />
Portraits of eight students who are graduating from Renaissance Academy in 2016 — after a school year where three students were killed, including one inside the school.
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  • Arnold Smith, 18.<br />
Portraits of eight students who are graduating from Renaissance Academy in 2016 — after a school year where three students were killed, including one inside the school.
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  • Ameer Smith, 19.<br />
Portraits of eight students who are graduating from Renaissance Academy in 2016 — after a school year where three students were killed, including one inside the school.
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  • Shawn Nelson, 17. He was attacked and stabbed multiple times on Feb. 5, 2015.<br />
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Portraits of eight students who are graduating from Renaissance Academy in 2016 — after a school year where three students were killed, including one inside the school.
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  • Santonio Jolley, 20.<br />
The brother of Ananias Jolley, who was attacked and killed by a fellow student in the building. Santonio, a dropout, returned to school after the death of his brother.  <br />
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Portraits of eight students who are graduating from Renaissance Academy in 2016 — after a school year where three students were killed, including one inside the school.
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  • Jon Boyd, 18.<br />
Portraits of eight students who are graduating from Renaissance Academy in 2016 — after a school year where three students were killed, including one inside the school.
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  • Acoyea Booze, 19. <br />
Portraits of eight students who are graduating from Renaissance Academy in 2016 — after a school year where three students were killed, including one inside the school.
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  • MoeShawn Brooks, 18.<br />
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Portraits of eight students who are graduating from Renaissance Academy in 2016 — after a school year where three students were killed, including one inside the school.
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  • The 88-year-old Studs Terkel, standing in the living room of his Chicago home, spent much of the his career discussing all aspects of 20th-century life with movers, shakers, artists, and the working folks of Chicagoland. The oral historiam spent 45 years on the air at WFMT radio. He alsi authored the seminal "Working."
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  • Samira Salmassi lives in a persistent vegetative state. Her ex-husband, who was living with her and their three children, attacked her in their home.<br />
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In 2005, Ghafour "Billy" Asemani, 38, walked into Howard County police headquarters and told the officer at the front desk that he had killed Salmassi, 38, the mother of his three children, that morning during an argument in which he struck her with a tape recorder and "placed his hands around her neck," according to court records. The argument began when Asemani confronted his ex-wife about telephone conversations that he had taped of her speaking to other men.<br />
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Asemani is serving a 30-year prison sentence for the attempted murder of Salmassi. They were divorced in 2001 as he served time in prison. She had welcomed him back into her home after he was paroled for healthcare fraud. The three children have been taken care of by friends, and attended the Milton Hershey School in Pennsylvania.
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  • It was Veteran's day when Lee Ann Doerflinger, of Silver Spring, lost her son as he fought in Iraq. Thomas Doerflinger was killed in action on Nov. 11, 2004, while serving in the battle of Mosul, Iraq.
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  • Stephen Dixon published his first book, a collection of short stories, in 1976 when he was 40. He has published another 30 published since then, always using a manual typewriter. Considered a "writer's writer" who obsessively chronicled his own life in his many novels, he retired from Johns Hopkins where he has taught creative writing for many years. He lives in Towson with his disabled wife, Anne, who finally asked her husband to stop writing about his every reaction to her debilitating illness.<br />
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photo by Christopher T. Assaf/The Baltimore Sun<br />
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  • Marilyn, Keene, N.H.<br />
Bronycon, Baltimore Convention Center. <br />
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"As a little girl I always played with My Little Ponies," Marilyn of Keene, N.H. said. "I am dressed as Princess Luna, she's my favorite princess. I decided to go full body because it was a challenge for me. I wanted to be that cosplayer that doesn't quite look the same as everybody else." Marilyn did not want to use her last name.
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  • Commercial real estate advisor Sydney Machat at his farm in Keedysville, Md. The barn dates back to before the Civil War, and was used as a hospital during the conflict.
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  • Author Stephen Dixon's first book, a collection of short stories, was written on a typewriter and published in 1976 when he was 40. That is all he has ever used, even for the 30 since. Considered a "writer's writer" who obsessively chronicles his own life in his many novels, he is retiring from Johns Hopkins University where he has taught creative writing for many years. He lives in Towson with his wife, Anne, who finally asked her husband to stop writing about his every reaction to her debilitating illness.
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  • A former high school music teacher from South Carolina, Joseph Young is the first recipient of The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra's conducting fellowship co-sponsored by the Peabody Institute. He will make his first appearance conducting the overture in Mozart's The Magic Flute.
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  • Former Baltimore Behavioral Health services patient Chris Lubold, 29, spent two months in 2009 living at the rehabilitation facility. Trying to kick a heroin and prescription pill habit, he found he was able to buy drugs near the Southwest Baltimore facility and that rules were not throughly enforced.
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  • Laure Drogoul, previous winner of the Sondheim Prize at Artscape, is curating a show of installation and performance artists for this year's festival. One of them is Tim Scofield, maker of Aerial Sculpture, who has his studio at MICA's Mt. Royal Station Building.
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  • Dr. Geoff Schoenbaum, 36, had a big 2003. He saw his second son born in February, got a professorship at Univeristy of Maryland in May, opened his first lab during the summer and won a $1.5 million grant in September. In August, the journal Neuron featured his research on the physiology of memory in the brain on its cover.
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  • Photojournalist Bill Eppridge spent much of 1968 photographing Robert Kennedy's presidential campaign for Life magazine. Forty years later, as the anniversary of Kennedy's death at the hand of an assassin approaches, he has released "A Time it Was: Bobby Kennedy in the Sixties." Eppridge made the iconic image of Kennedy, on the ground after taking a bullet to the head, held by anguished busboy Juan Romero.
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  • Poet Sterling Plumpp has published 12 volumes of poetry and earned several prestigious literary awards. But an initial $20 purchase of lottery tickets soon turned 61-year-old Plumpp into a millionaire. He plans to retire from his position with the University of Illinois-Chicago and live off the lottery winnings.
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  • "The good Lord spared it for a reason, it's mine and I don't want it to walk off," Lee "Leo" Jordan said of his home and belongings on Rodenburd Avenue, a few steps from the breach in Biloxi, Miss. He did not stay in his home during Hurricane Katrina, but plans on remaining there even though there is no power or water.
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  • Tyrek Hodge, 11, was trying to attend the Ravens' Super Bowl celebration at M&T Bank Stadium with his mother, Tiffany, when the two got caught up in a stampede outside the stadium and the boy was seriously injured. Tyrek, a Ray Rice fan, suffered a concussion, an injury to his and eye and several lacerations.
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  • After spending many years working as a photographer for the Art Institute of Chicago, a retired John Mahtesian has published a book of his photographs made in neigborhoods during his travels.
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  • Hoodies are in fashion: Brian Wright in the lobby of Baltimore's The Belvedere wearing his favorite style of clothing, a hoodie sweatshirt.
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  • Ed Schrader, artist and showman, in the Metro Gallery where he hosts "The Ed Schrader Show," a late-night television spoof. He has a self-professed, unhealthy obsession with David Bowie.
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  • Wyatt Burrows (right),  a 10-year old from Abingdon, and his brother Raymond, 12, watch Wyatt's Chilean rose hair tarantula Fifi as it crawls around the tank he keeps in his room. The seven-year-old spider was two when he got it. It is difficult to know if the spider, which can live up to 20 years, is a male or female.
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  • King Lear "Soldier", portrayed by Jay Edwards, in the Baltimore Center Stage production of Shakespeare's King Lear. The bit-part actor portrays numerous parts in the production.
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  • King Lear "Riotous Knight," portrayed by Rod Brogan, in the Baltimore Center Stage production of Shakespeare's King Lear. The bit-part actor portrays several parts in the production.
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  • Barry Lashley, 45, Baltimore, construction worker.
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  • For two years, Justin Johnson, 13, has traveled from his home in Hammond,<br />
Ind., for weekly cello lessons at the Sherwood Conservatory of Music in downtown Chicago.
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  • A 16-year-old junior at the Baltimore School for the Arts, Nick Sipe has literally grown up — about 6 inches this past year — gaining in enthusiasm, confidence and strength as a dancer. He will perform as the prince in three main performances of the Nutcracker Ballet. When he came to the School for the Arts two years ago, he felt too small in his ballet classes. He was 5'3" and is now almost 5'9" which has made a universe of difference in his ability to partner girls.
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  • Long Reach senior long jumper Tiffani Long will be attending the University of Maryland with a full scholarship for track. She jumped 17 feet, 11 1/2 inches, at the Nike Indoor Nationals for high school athletes.
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  • Traveller Laura Holland's favorite place is the open road. Photographed for the Baltimore Sun Travel Survey.
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  • Baltimore Ravens linebacker Terrell Suggs photographed at the Ravens headquarters in Owings Mills.
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  • "He's a teacup Bullmastiff," Mayli Mrkward of 120-pound, three-year-old Meaty. This breed of dog weighs up to 150 pounds, and Meaty is at the low end of the scale.<br />
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 Mayli, her husband Darren and Meaty also share their Parry Hall home with Zippy, a three-year-old French Bulldog. Zippy, despite being much smaller, is in control with size not making a difference.
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  • Cyrus Ballo received a corn snake for his seventh birthday, which he named Sneaky. The snake, which stays in his room, was a gift from his parents Michael Ballo and Joanna Pi-Sunyer who rescued him from a local shelter.
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  • Max, a 6- or 7-year-old Rough Collie, waits for owner Sue Roberts to return from inside her Bel Air home. "He is so good with people, and loves everybody," Sue said. "And he follows me everywhere." this mean Max stares through the door, waiting patiently, as his owner slips briefly inside.
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  • Max, a 6- or 7-year-old Rough Collie, waits for owner Sue Roberts to return from inside her Bel Air home. "He is so good with people, and loves everybody," Sue said. "And he follows me everywhere." Max stares through the front door, waiting patiently, as his owner slipped briefly inside.
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  • Pokey is an African pygmy hedgehog Jen Smith named after the horse in the Gumby animated shorts. Somewhere around 4-years old, Pokey was a rescue from the Hedgehog Welfare Society, and is one of four she owns.
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  • The man behind the scenes of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, chairman Buddy Zamoiski.
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  • Actor and bongo player Matthew McConaughey during a promotional tour for the movie "Sahara." McConaughey traveled the United States stopping at theaters to promote the summer blockbuster.
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  • Jameson Kelly, an 8-year-old American short-hair Lee Kelly of Towson has owned since he was a kitten she got from a rescue. Recently, under veterinarian's orders, he lost a pound and weighed in at 18 pounds.
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  • Libby, a 15-year-old Lab mix, was rescued from Barcs by Liz and Lynn Holland. "This is like her nursing home," Liz said of taking the dog into the home they share with two other dogs, 3 cats and Charlotte, the couple's 10-week-old baby. <br />
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"She can spend her golden years here." Liz has been with them for two weeks. Libby gets to spend a lot of time at Patterson Park, just a few blocks from their house.
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  • Fluffy Sayan, a silkie hen, lives in Hunt Vally with several other chickens and three children.  Kristen and Paul Sayan adopted a young Silkie hen they christened Fluffy, which is a unique characteristic of the breed. Blind in one eye from an infection early in life, Fluffy lives kind of large with the Sayans. "She is extremely friendly and tolerates being carried around constantly," says Kristen.<br />
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Fluffy has also become the family's largest egg producer, laying five to seven eggs per week and continuing to lay long into the fall, when their other chickens stop for the year.
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  • Jamie Hollandsworth has had pets all her life, but she wasn't quite sure what to expect when her nephew asked her to take in a turtle he'd bought on vacation. Then the size of a quarter, Franklin came to live in Hollandsworth's Bel Air home.<br />
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It is illegal to sell eggs or turtles smaller than four inches throughout the United States, and in Maryland it is illegal to release the species, declared invasive, into the wild. This often happens after owners realize the cute baby turtles can turn into a lifetime commitment. Most red-eared slider turtles live for 20 to 30 years, although some can live for more than 40, and can grow to a foot in length.<br />
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Life with the turtle hasn't come without surprises.  "I thought Franklin was a male when I got him seven years ago," she says. "But this past March, I found 10 eggs in her tank. We now know that Franklin is a female." Whoops.
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  • Dakota, a nine-year-old Doberman-Labrador-Rottweiler mix, was adopted from BARCS in January 2004 by Barb Nelms and Charles Turesko of Ellicott City.<br />
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At the age of 12 months, his first family decided he was too big, and too much work, as they prepared for the holidays. He was skin and bones at 51 pounds with chronic intestinal upset. Unfamiliar with how to navigate stairs or the sounds of a washing machine or dishwasher, they believe he'd spent most of his life outdoors.<br />
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Nine years later he weights 95 pounds, and looks athletic and trim.
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  • Sporty is the 'dogcat' at Fair Play Farms in White Hall. The cat, who a vet figured is 5-years old, is one of several who hangs around, including Graycat, who they suspect is his brother. Ginny Class, the farm manager, says the cat acts much like a dog. The cat greets everyone as they drive up to the barn, then jumps in their cars. Adopted by the Farm Manager Ginny Class and several horse owners,Sporty strayed in one day and never left.
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  • Elvis Gamble, a 3-year-old Siberian Husky, spends much of his time outdoors. Fortunate for him, his owner, Laura Gamble, works from home.<br />
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Gamble adopted Elvis in 2009 from the Baltimore County Humane Society, who had rescued him from a kill shelter in Tennessee. (Hence his name Elvis, whom Gamble always pictured as wearing a fancy white suit.)
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  • Sissy Robbins, a 13-year-old (or so) Collie mix living in her third home. Holly Robbins of Fallston volunteered to take in Sissy when her second owner had to give her up. She spends much of her time laying in the grass of the front yard.
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  • Julia Hamilton wanted a pet, and settled on Nutmeg, a hamster she adopted in January from the Carroll County Humane Society. The Sykesville 11-year old had Nutmeg, age unknown, take part in her 5th-grade science experiment.
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  • "He's just too darn cute," says John Raine III  of Tippy, the box turtle he found while mowing the grass at his home in St. Michaels. What started as a curiosity to show people soon turned into a beloved pet that travels with Raine and his wife, Barbara.
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  • After surviving the anthrax and pneumonia, David Hose says, "I'm on three heart medications. I have asthma. I'm extremely weak." Unable to climb the stairs, he spent much of his early recovery on the couch of his Winchester, Va., home. Two years after the anthrax mailings halted delivery and killed several people, the former postal manager spends much of his time taking numerous medications and battling the government and his insurance agency for coverage.
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