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Days of music and tinkling bells really are gone

Dennis Duggan

Dennis Duggan Dennis Duggan

Former Newsday Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Dennis Duggan joined Newsday

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Manny Caraballo showed me the scar at the back of his head

yesterday.

"See it?" he asked.

I did. The scar was a white line about an inch long where hair would never

grow again.

"They beat the hell out of me," said Caraballo, 26. "I was driving my

ice-cream truck in the Bronx three years ago when a guy in a Mister Softee

truck cut me off, got out and...

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