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OPEN GYM, OPEN HEART

FROM A DISTANCE, the cadence and rhythm sound like any other open gym run. Kanye West’s “Follow God” is pumping over the portable speaker, rubber soles are skidding on the hardwood surface and casual basketball directives—“Get back, get back. I got ball!”—reverberate off the stark cement walls.

But this is not your typical open gym run. The song and setting have deeper meaning here. When you step inside the double-red doors of

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