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All those in attendance assemble for a group photo after the talk When Sam Castro was three years old, he was shot in the arm outside his home on Chicago’s Northwest side. He remembers the chaos in the aftermath, how his mother and grandmother screamed when he walked over and told them what had happened. He also remembers that after the initial shock of the whole thing, nobody ever spoke to him about it again. Castro, 45, said that the incident loomed large in his childhood. Seeing violence so early in his life led him on the path to … [Read more...] about Chicago group engages storytelling to understand violence