These are my notes and links to date on ‘Yummy’. My only disapointment is that you will not be very impressed in the face of juvenile violence that has occurred since this date. At the time it was pretty shocking. On August 28, 1994, Shavon Dean was caught in a gang crossfire, and allegedly [...]
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