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Mother’s Day peace walk recalls slain youths

By Matt Byrne

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  May 14, 2012

Defying the street violence that took their loved ones and shattered countless lives, hundreds marched through Dorchester Sunday, many hand-in-hand, to preach and pray for peace on Boston’s street corners. “As we’re here this morning, it’s bittersweet,’’ said Tina Chéry, head of the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute, and founder of the walk. “It is not acceptable for someone to take another mother’s child. Let us remember . . . 365 days of the year, that peace is possible.’’

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