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Evergreen Newspapers, Inc.
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It’s easy to forget that the line between safety and calamity can be razor thin, and that any one of the countless minor lapses and miscalculations that everyone routinely commits can turn deadly.
John Newkirk stood alone in Corona Park, a neglected expanse of trees, gravel paths and stillness in Queens, N.Y. A few hundred yards away, broad expressways roared with traffic and energy and purpose, but the park lay empty, desolate. It was the afternoon of Sept. 15, 2005, and, overhead, solid ranks of dark clouds marched inland from the Atlantic forming an endless, dreary ceiling that dulled colors and pulled the horizon in close. Clad in dusty leathers, the 43-year-old Evergreen man had driven his motorcycle more than 5,000 miles in preceding weeks, tracing a wandering course across the country with the single goal of standing exactly where he now stood. He should have been elated, he knew, triumphant. Instead, he was overwhelmed by a powerful melancholy.
The Evergreen teen who was convicted of a weapons charge after posing with guns on MySpace.com was sentenced to 18 months probation last week.
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