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Jun 25, 2003

"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words." --Unknown

As teenagers from a rough part of New Jersey, Sampson Davis, Rameck Hunt, and George Jenkins had nothing special going for them except loving mothers (one of whom was a drug user) and above-average intelligence. Their first stroke of luck was testing into University High, one of Newark's three magnet high schools, and their second was finding each other. A decade and a half ago, these three teenage boys had made a pact: they would stick together, go to college, and become doctors. Today, they are doctors.