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Kevin Cullen

Street’s win is society’s loss

It is often a cliche, and not really true, to say that a young person was turning his life around when he died. But in the case of Mariano Malave, it was true. He had messed up time after time, but finally resolved to straighten out and get a job and stop smoking weed. Then he opened a door in Jamaica Plain and the Miracle That Was Mariano was over.

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