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THE GOOD FIGHT Delivering life lessons through boxing
PHOTO BY LOUIS TINSLEY
BY ANDREA K. MCDANIELS
ONE DAY LAST DECEMBER, Donté Brown took 13-year-old Parker Therrien through a circuit of exercises—push-ups, planks, crunches, high knees and back lunges—at the gym he runs in Derwood. Soon Parker, who lives in Poolesville, was breaking a sweat, even though he was barely five minutes into his session at Donte’s Boxing
Donté Brown in the ring at his Derwood gym
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