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ArticlePro­gram seeds friend­ships for 20 years

For years, South of Mar­ket res­id­ents Jer­on­imo Coelho and Thomas Stevens have walked by an omin­ous and over­grown wall of shrub­bery and trees along Howard Street at Sev­enth, not know­ing what was on the other side. Then one Sunday in May, a gate...