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PICO BLVD. — Even a decade later, Trae Smith remembers the seemingly ordinary events: a Los Angeles Clippers game, a barbecue, an athletic competition. As an elementary and middle school student who spent countless hours in a youth enrichment program, he saw the activities as ways to have fun —but he was learning and maturing, […]
