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Photos of Jeff Younger’s smiling twin boys are scattered throughout his comfortable brick home in the Dallas suburbs. Happy moments, frozen in time.
Next to the back door, a jump rope and youth-size boxing headgear haven’t moved from the corner where they were tossed 13 months ago. Outside, a punching bag hangs silent from a sturdy shade tree towering over a yard once filled with the tap-tap-tap sound of little fists pounding canvas.
Younger spent hours at a time in that space with his boys, James and Jude, who were 9 at the time, teaching them to wrestle and land a punch—just as his father taught him when he was a kid....