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DFLA Spotlight: Reuniting with The Boy Who Tamed "The Beast"

By David Schonauer   Wednesday September 17, 2014

“Denis taught me how to tame ‘The Beast.’ He was 12. I was 52. We met in a rail yard in Tapachula, Mexico, not far from the Guatemalan border. I had slung two cameras over my back and climbed the iron rungs to the top of a hopper car.” So …

Read the whole story at The Los Angeles Times.


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