The Washington Post, September 26th, 1993
Alonzo Washington has lost more than most to the D.C. streets. First his father, gunned down in a W Street robbery when Alonzo was 7. Then his mom, lost in a more complicated, private way. Then a brother, who now resides at Lorton. Yet something in the streets still called seductively to Alonzo. It registered on his hip, where a small black pager hung. At sweet 16, Alonzo wasn't just a veteran salesman in the District's bustling crack trade. This Hugo Boss-sporting teenage father - with his eighth-grade education, nagging family troubles and canny disregard for the law - was the embodiment of...
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