68 Blocks: Life, death, hope | Part 4
Mayhem has a kind of momentum; it can be exhausting to resist. In Bowdoin-Geneva, an anticrime effort flops. And Big Nate explodes. But the peace festival rocks, and a son in jail has started to pray.
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Theresa Johnson talked on the phone while her daughter, Ceecee, fixed the hair of her granddaughter Trinity.
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Theresa Johnson spoke with Ceecee and her granddaughter's mother, Tricia Ariol, while preparing lasagna at her home.
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Johnson, secretary at the Marshall Elementary School, got a hug from first-grader Shaundene Funches on the last day of the school year.
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A peace magnet displayed on the refrigerator of Theresa Johnson’s home in Dorchester.
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Theresa Johnson's son Sean is at the South Bay House of Correction.
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Jalanae, Theresa’s youngest child, got her hair done by her mother while Tricia Ariol, mother of Jalanae's neice, watched.
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Theresa Johnson took a picture of her son, Etohn Dale-Johnson, while he played "Deal or No Deal" at Dave and Buster's in Braintree.
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Theresa Johnson celebrated her birthday at Slades Bar and Grille in Roxbury on Aug. 31.
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A tearful Theresa Johnson, left, hugged her daughter Jalanae as she returned from Crossroads for Kids camp on Aug 2.
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Trinity Dale-Johnson, granddaughter of Theresa Johnson, looked out the window of Johnson's home in Dorchester on June 13.
NOTEBOOK
Tata, the neighborhood volunteerNatalio “Tata” Fernandes takes care of the Bowdoin-Geneva neighborhood, and it takes care of him.
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