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A crime then, and now

By Brian McGrory

 |  Globe Staff  

  March 21, 2012

Shirley Simmons helped spare the city of yet another round of violence more than three decades ago when her son was shot and paralyzed on a football field in Charlestown. Politicians of every size and stripe promised to help, but they never did. Now she faces foreclosure of her modest house in Milton.

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