Not sure how or why we missed this awesome story about and from Douglass High star defensive tackle Garrison Smith, who’s one of the top-rated prep defensive linemen in the nation and committed recently to attend and play for the University of Georgia. Neverthess, as a part of the newspaper’s “First Person” series, Smith relates on the relationship he developed with an elderly neighbor, and their mutual love of checkers. Instead of placing the whole story in block quotes (we hate all that italics), read the story in full, with no eye squinting, after the jump …
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