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THE UNDERDOG

ON THE intersection of 10th and Barber Street in Little Rock, AR, a 10-year-old Bobby Portis was up late playing video games one night when gunshots rang out nearby. He was accustomed to the sound, but this was different.

“This time, it was like a machine gun,” Portis recalls. “It kept going and going for

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