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Q: There was death in D.C. throughout the ' 80 s and into the ' 90 s, and there was death everywhere, " said Starke, who was reared in New Rochelle N.Y., and played at Columbia. " It wasn't like New York's or Boston's organized crime.
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The D.C. area had deaths throughout the 80s and 90s just like everywhere else according to Starke, who is from New Rochelle, NY; but not as bad as New York or Boston though.