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The night before Game 3 of the 2018 World Series, Xander Bogaerts' mind raced. He was restless, but not because of any concerns about his team and its fate. He never doubted the Red Sox would win the World Series. In that moment, the game was the least of his worries.

He entered the postseason as the only active player on the Boston roster with experience in the Fall Classic. The nerves, the anxiety, the excitement, he knew how to deal with all that after feeling it back in 2013, the first time around when he started at third base as the Red Sox beat the Cardinals for their eighth title.

Instead, his anxious thoughts centered around the reunion later that night in the ballroom of the Langham Hotel in Los Angeles. They made him feel like a rookie all over again.

Twenty-three years. That's how much time had passed. Twenty-three long years since Bogaerts last saw his dad, Jan Maarten Bogaerts, a man whose first names are the middle names of his 26-year-old twin sons, Xander Jan and Jair Maarten. Growing up, those middle names were only heard when Mom, Sandra Brown, grew angry with the boys in Aruba.

Maarten was in Los Angeles only because Xander reached out to him last week while he was in Hong Kong, where he works in imports and exports. Maarten and his wife, Lourdes, soon found themselves on a plane en route to LAX, flying 7,000 miles over the Pacific Ocean to watch his son play in his second World Series. To watch his son play baseball in person for the second time in his life.

As Xander inched closer to the ballroom, his mind jumped from thought to thought. I mean, what are you supposed to say in this situation? What do you say to your dad after not seeing him for 23 years? What do you say to your father who left behind Aruba and his family when you were three years old? What do you do when you sit down for a meal with your dad for the first time since you were old enough to remember?

"I didn't know how it would all feel," Xander tells Bleacher Report. "Whether it would be awkward or not."
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As he sat down, he took a moment. He reminded himself of the biggest lesson he had learned since being a fresh-faced rookie who raised a World Series trophy, what he tells himself every time he steps up to the plate.

Stay in the present. Stay in the present. Stay in the present.

Sandra Brown did her best to make sure her three kids never missed out on anything, as if they never missed out by not having Dad around.

Supermom, the kids called her, and they watched her shuffle from her duties as a social worker to the never-ending job of being a single mom. The family grew up in a four-bedroom home 12 miles southeast of Oranjestad, the capital of Aruba. Mom's boisterous, enthusiastic, optimistic personality did enough to fill all the rooms by herself.

"She didn't make it feel like there was something missing," Chandra, Xander's sister, says.

The hardest part was explaining where their dad was. As little kids, Xander and Jair struggled to put words together to explain to their friends why their dad didn't live with them, let alone lived halfway across the world. Year by year, the missed moments piled up. The brothers preferred not to think about the situation.

Whenever the topic came up, Sandra always made sure to never speak negatively about Maarten. "Whatever happened between him and me, that was between him and me," Sandra says.

The kids and Maarten spoke sporadically. Sandra always made sure on Father's Day, on Christmas, on birthdays that Xander, Jair and Chandra spoke to their dad, even if they didn't want to.

"Until they were 18, I made sure they were diligent," Sandra says. "But once they were 18, they were grown, so they can take care of themselves. You are on your own."

In 2004, with Xander 12 years old, Chandra left Aruba to attend college in Hong Kong, where she felt a pull to reconnect and get to know her dad. She reached out to Maarten's wife, who helped her make that connection. "I've grown to know my dad better through his wife," Chandra says. "[Xander and Jair] didn't have that."

After she would meet with Maarten, she would text updates to her brothers. "We saw Papa this weekend," Chandra would text the boys. This is how he is now, this is how he used to be, she texted them. He's different from when we were little, she assured.

Xander and Jair showed varying levels of interest. They received encouragement to reach out to their father from their aunt, Nydia. The boys, seven years younger than their older sister, still teenagers, weren't ready yet. Supermom didn't worry.

"That time always comes in everyone's life," Sandra says.

Maarten always kept up on his sons' baseball careers. He knew when Xander and Jair both signed with the Red Sox. He knew when Xander made the jump to the Red Sox Dominican Academy to Greenville and then was promoted to Salem, Portland and Pawtucket. He followed Jair, who went from the Dominican Academy to being traded to the Chicago Cubs to a pursuit of a career as a sports agent. He just wanted them both to have success.
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"You follow that in the background," Maarten says. "You do a lot via the internet and the newspapers and things like that." He says he just wanted to see how Xander was progressing, doing what he wanted, playing the game he loves. "That was the most important."

He left Aruba before Xander became a baseball player, before Xander became the island's star shortstop who nearly didn't go to his Red Sox tryout because he had chicken pox. He left before Xander and Jair signed their professional contracts at Fenway Park in 2009.

He had wanted to reach out for years, to reconnect, but the timing wasn't right. "He'd been trying for a while already, but it had to be up to them," Chandra says. "You can't impose something like that on your children, so he left it up to them. He left the door open."

Maarten came to understand why his sons weren't ready. "It was a lot of family stuff," he says now.

When the Red Sox reached the 2013 World Series, Maarten felt a pull to connect with his son, to congratulate him, to see him play in person and spend time with him after so many years had passed. Already overwhelmed with being a rookie and a starting third baseman in the World Series, Xander couldn't handle anything more. He told Maarten that he wasn't ready to see him. That the time hadn't yet come.

So Maarten, determined to watch his son play baseball in person for the first time, flew 18 hours to St. Louis to watch Xander play third base in Busch Stadium, camping out with his wife high in the right field corner. He left the next day, heading back to Hong Kong.

After the Red Sox raised the trophy back in Boston, the family received a picture of Maarten and Lourdes at the game. "I was glad that he respected our decision," Jair says. "We were 21, and that would've been even more tough of a World Series."

Xander and Jair continued to receive encouragement from their aunt to reach out to Maarten. While on a trip across Europe in 2016, Jair decided it was time to see his dad. "I decided I wanted to make it happen," Jair says. "I just wanted to get it over with." They met. They caught up and started to talk.

The family started to wonder about Xander too. Jair talking to Dad again cracked open the door. Xander began to wonder in the family WhatsApp group chat whether it was time for him to do so as well. He peppered Chandra with questions, as Jair had done a year before. After a long conversation with his aunt, Xander added Maarten on WhatsApp. "F--k it. Let's get it done," Xander told Jair. So they did.

A day after the Red Sox beat the Astros to advance to the World Series, Xander asked his father if he wanted to join the family for the Los Angeles leg of the series. "We have to be there," Maarten told Xander. A flurry of logistics later, Maarten was in Los Angeles, ready to watch all three games at Dodger Stadium.

Xander, Jair and Maarten talked at dinner and then at breakfast the next day. Chandra took photos. "I have so many photos of them together, smiling and laughing," she says. "That wasn't something we had growing up." Over the course of the week, they filled up the empty family photo albums.

"It's one of the best decisions I've ever made," Xander says. "I've grown up as a man."

When the final out came, when Chris Sale struck out Manny Machado on a slider that brought the Dodgers' slugger to one knee, when the Red Sox became world champions for the ninth time in franchise history, Jair turned to his father. As they watched Xander join the celebration mob on the mound, they hugged and celebrated together for the first time. "I made sure I was there next to him," Jair says.

As the crowd settled down, Jair met his brother on the field. He gave him a dap and a hug. Maarten, wearing a Bogaerts jersey and a blue-and-green backpack, grabbed and hugged Xander as well, whispering something in his ear and rubbing his back. Xander smiled.

The family walked toward the infield dirt. Maarten continued to pat his son on the back.

"It's all worth it," Maarten said. "It's all worth it."

The family took a photo together, among the first in 23 years. Chandra's son ran away as soon as he was let go. Xander chased him into the outfield.

When Chandra looked at her brother now, she saw the transformation. Xander wasn't the same 16-year-old kid who signed out of Aruba. Even the 21-year-old who won a World Series during his rookie year seemed like a distant memory. "He's matured the same way he's matured playing baseball," she says. "It helped him find himself as a man, and that was what he needed to actually get face to face with Daddy and figure things out."

Xander is briefly pulled away to do a TV interview in the outfield. When he is finished, he takes a moment to think about his dad, that Maarten was with him to celebrate his second world championship.

"I've forgiven him for everything, all the time he wasn't here," Xander said. "I'm trying to enjoy the good times we're going to have going forward, and hopefully we can see him more often.

"I'm just glad we won it in Dodger Stadium while he was here."

Everyone acknowledged this was just the beginning of a road mended. Conversations still need to take place, and 23 years don't disappear overnight. But as the Jumbotron flashed "WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS" along with the Red Sox logo, Maarten glanced at Xander.

Life isn't a fairy tale with an easy beginning, middle and end. But at least for one ephemeral moment, Maarten couldn't have imagined things being any better.

"Perfect," Maarten said. He paused and thought. "Yeah, perfect."

The time had finally come. It was now.

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The night before Game 3 of the 2018 World Series, Xander Bogaerts ' mind raced. He was restless, but not because of any concerns about his team and its fate. He never doubted the Red Sox would win the World Series...

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A Catholic priest in Ohio was arrested after his diocese said he admitted to a three-year relationship with a now-pregnant 17-year-old girl.

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A Catholic priest in Ohio was arrested after his diocese said he admitted to a three-year relationship with a now-pregnant 17-year-old girl.

Father Henry Christopher Foxhoven, 45, a priest from the Diocese in Steubenville, was charged with eight counts of sexual battery after allegedly engaging in sexual conduct with a minor between Aug. 17 and Oct. 25, according to the Athens County Sheriff's Office.

The prosecutor said Foxhoven's sexual conduct with the girl who is a member of Holy Cross in Glouster, one of his two parishes, happened on church property but not inside the church itself.
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The Steubenville diocese reported the allegations Saturday after Foxhoven admitted to the relationship, and he was immediately barred from church property and suspended from practicing all religious services.

After obtaining a search warrant Monday, investigators found evidence of criminal activity at Foxhoven's residence, including several used condoms and a used pregnancy test with a positive indication.

Foxhoven was charged Tuesday in court with a $1 million bond. He is scheduled to appear again for a preliminary hearing on Nov. 29.
PENNSYLVANIA PRIEST CHARGED WITH INDECENT ASSAULT, CORRUPTION OF A MINOR, OFFICIALS SAY
Foxhoven was ordained in 2004 and previously worked in St. Clairsville and Wintersville. There are no reported incidents from the priest in the past.

This news comes as the Steubenville diocese released the names of 16 priests and one seminarian who have been credibly accused or admitted to sexually abusing minors, most deceased and dating back decades.

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A Catholic priest in Ohio was arrested after his diocese said he admitted to a three-year relationship with a now-pregnant 17-year-old girl. Father Henry Christopher Foxhoven, 45, a priest from the Diocese in Steubenville, was charged with eight counts of sexual battery after allegedly engaging in sexual conduct with a minor between Aug.

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Gender inequality is linked to more deaths than expected among girls under the age of 5 compared with boys of the same age, especially in lower- and middle-income countries, says the study.

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Oregon teen, 14, and friend planned to drug, burn his parents alive in home, police say

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A 14-year-old boy and his 13-year-old friend were arrested after cops foiled a plot to kill the older teenager's parents by drugging them with sleeping pills then setting their home on fire, officials said.

The Benton County Sheriff's Office said in a news release the 14-year-old was arrested on Saturday in Albany, located about 70 miles south of Portland, and his friend was arrested two days later. Neither teen was identified and the parents who were targeted were also not ID'd by authorities.

The 14-year-old's father had contacted the sheriff's office on Thursday after receiving information his son wanted to give him and his wife sleeping pills and light the family house on fire to kill them.

Benton County Undersheriff Greg Ridler told FOX12 it's "not uncommon" for a 14-year-old to wish to have no discipline and have desires "to be free," but this case was different.

"In this case, he took that desire to a different level than most kids would," Ridler told FOX12. "It's very disturbing and it's very alarming that we would have a 14-year-old go through this effort in an attempt to kill his parents."
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"It's very disturbing and it's very alarming that we would have a 14-year-old go through this effort in an attempt to kill his parents."
- Benton County Undersheriff Greg Ridler

Deputies interviewed the 13-year-old boy on Monday, where he "admitted to giving his friend the sleep aid medication to kill his parents," the sheriff's office said.

Both teenagers are facing two charges of attempted aggravated murder, while the 14-year-old is facing an additional charge of attempted arson in the first degree. Both teens, neither of whom has a criminal history, are being held at the Linn-Benton Detention Center in Linn County.

The sheriff's office said several additional friends were "reportedly aware of the son's plot" and are asking anyone with additional information to contact the sheriff's office at 541-766-6858.

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The search for the crashed Lion Air plane has found aircraft debris and passenger belongings on the seafloor but the object thought to be the fuselage is still eluding it, an Indonesian official said Wednesday, as chilling video of passengers boarding the fatal flight emerged.
Search and Rescue Agency chief Muhammad Syaugi said the seafloor findings give the search team confidence they will find the body of the aircraft.

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The search for the crashed Lion Air plane has found aircraft debris and passenger belongings on the seafloor but the object thought to be the fuselage is still eluding it, an Indonesian official said Wednesday, as chilling video of passengers boarding the fatal flight emerged.

Search and Rescue Agency chief Muhammad Syaugi said the seafloor findings give the search team confidence they will find the body of the aircraft. The location of the airplane's "black box" flight data recorder has been identified, he said, but strong currents prevented it from being recovered.

"We saw belongings such as life jackets, pants, clothes scattered on the seabed," Syaugi said. "We believe the fuselage will be around there, we hope that our target can be found."

The 2-month-old Boeing 737 MAX 8 jet plunged into the Java Sea early Monday just minutes after taking off from Jakarta, killing all 189 people on board.

The disaster has reignited concerns about safety in Indonesia's fast-growing aviation industry, which was recently removed from European Union and U.S. blacklists, and also raised doubts about the safety of Boeing's new generation 737 MAX 8 plane.

Syaugi said one of the ships with high-tech equipment being used in the search dispatched a remote-operated vehicle that recorded parts of the aircraft on the seafloor but not the 22-meter (72-foot) -long object detected at a depth of 32 meters (105 feet) that is believed to be the fuselage. He said the area is about 400 meters (1,300 feet) from the coordinates where the airplane lost contact.

Three other objects in separate locations were reached by divers but turned out to be two sunken boats and a fish trap. A remote-operated vehicle was sent to the black box location "but the currents on the seabed were very strong, the ROV was carried away," Syaugi said.

Searchers have sent 57 body bags containing human remains to police identification experts who on Wednesday said they'd identified their first victim, a 24-year-old woman, from a ring and a right hand.

Anguished family members have been providing samples for DNA tests and police say results are expected within 4-8 days.

Musyafak, the head of Said Sukanto Police Hospital, said nearly 150 samples for DNA testing have been collected but more are still needed, especially from parents and children of victims.

Boeing Co. experts were expected to arrive in Indonesia on Wednesday and Lion Air has said an "intense" internal investigation is underway in addition to the probe by safety regulators.

Data from flight-tracking sites show the plane had erratic speed and altitude in the early minutes of a flight on Sunday and on its fatal flight Monday. Safety experts caution, however, that the data must be checked for accuracy against the plane's black boxes.

Several passengers on the Sunday flight from Bali to Jakarta have recounted problems that included a long-delayed takeoff for an engine check and terrifying descents in the first 10 minutes in the air.

Two interviewed on Indonesian TV recalled details such as a strange engine sound, a smell of burnt cables, and panicked passengers crying out for God to save them as the plane rapidly lost altitude. Later in the flight, a man who was either the captain or first officer walked through the plane and returned to the cockpit with what looked like a large manual.

Lion Air has said maintenance was carried out on the aircraft after the Sunday flight and a problem, which it didn't specify, was fixed.

Indonesian TV broadcast a smartphone video of passengers boarding Flight 610, its mundane details transformed into unsettling moments by knowledge of the tragedy that would transpire.

It showed passengers' boarding passes being checked and people walking along a concourse and then down stairs with bright red and white Lion Air jets visible on the tarmac.

At one point, the passenger who shot the video, Paul Ferdinand Ayorbaba, zoomed in on the flight number on his boarding pass. A part of the video shows passengers walking up the boarding stairs to a Lion jet.

"My husband sent that video to me via WhatsApp. It was his last contact with me, his last message to me," said Inchy Ayorbaba, interviewed at the Jakarta police hospital where she had taken their three children for DNA tests.

The messaging app's timestamp showed the video was sent about 35 minutes before the plane took off, said Ayorbaba, who first saw the message at 6:30 a.m., some 10 minutes after the plane departed, and then went back to sleep.

Lion Air's technical director was removed from duty Wednesday at the order of the Transport Ministry. It also has ordered all Boeing 737 MAX 8 planes operated by Lion Air and national carrier Garuda to be inspected. Lion has ordered 50 of the jets, worth an estimated $6.2 billion, and currently operates nine.

Daniel Putut, a Lion Air managing director, said Tuesday evening the airline has many questions for Boeing.

"Of course there are lots of things we will ask them, we all have question marks here, 'Why? What's the matter with this new plane,'" Putut said.

The crash is the worst airline disaster in Indonesia since 1997, when 234 people died in the crash of a Garuda flight near Medan. In December 2014, an AirAsia flight from Surabaya to Singapore plunged into the sea, killing all 162 on board.

Indonesian airlines were barred in 2007 from flying to Europe because of safety concerns, though several were allowed to resume services in the following decade. The ban was completely lifted in June. The U.S. lifted a decadelong ban in 2016.

Lion Air, a discount carrier, is one of Indonesia's youngest and biggest airlines, flying to dozens of domestic and international destinations. It has been expanding aggressively in Southeast Asia, a fast-growing region of more than 600 million people.

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Associated Press journalist Andi Jatmiko contributed to this report.

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Just weeks after visiting the White House, Kanye West appears to be a little tired of politics. The rapper and designer on Tuesday said on Twitter that he plans on "distancing" himself from politics, alleging he's being "used to spread messages I don't believe in."

"I am distancing myself from politics and completely focusing on being creative!!!" he wrote.

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The world's largest producer of green stones has unearthed a 5,655-carat emerald crystal at its mines in Zambia.

The stone, which weighs more than 1.1 kg (almost 2.5 lbs), was found at the Gemfield mines in Kagem, the company said in a statement Monday.

The emerald is being called "Inkalamu," which means "lion" in the local Zambia Bemba language. It will be cut into smaller pieces and auctioned in Singapore in November.

It has "remarkable clarity and a perfectly balanced golden green hue," the statement said.

The stone was found in an open mine on October 2, by geologist Debapriya Rakshit and emerald miner Richard Kapeta.

Emeralds are rare and more valuable than diamonds, driving their demand in the market. Most of the world's emeralds are mined in Zambia, Colombia, and Brazil.

Elena Basaglia, Gemfields' gemologist, said there's been increasing interest in Zambia's emeralds, particularly from dealers in Europe.

"We are experiencing strikingly increased demand for high-quality Zambian emeralds from the major brands, particularly in Europe, all of whom admire the rich color and unique transparency of our gems -- qualities that make them unique among emeralds," Basaglia said.

The gem is not the largest emerald stone to have been found in the company's mines. In 2010, miners at the Zambia-based operation found a 6,225-carat emerald they named the "elephant" due to its massive size.

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Written by Bukola Adebayo, CNN The world's largest producer of green stones has unearthed a 5,655-carat emerald crystal at its mines in Zambia. The stone, which weighs more than 1.1 kg (almost 2.5 lbs), was found at the Gemfield mines in Kagem, the company said in a statement Monday.

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Retired LAPD detective claims unearthed letter links his father to Black Dahlia slaying

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Retired LAPD detective Steve Hodel believes a new clue appears to identify his late father as the prime suspect behind the most infamous murder in America.

The South Pasadenan recently reported Holden, who has written several books linking his father, Dr. George Hodel, to the heinous Black Dahlia murder in 1947, has received access to a handwritten letter by W. Glenn Martin, a late undercover informant for the LAPD during the late 1940s.

Martin reportedly penned the detailed missive 69 years ago to protect his then-teenage daughters, whom he feared could be harmed over him knowing too much about the case.

The three-page letter, dated Oct. 25, 1949, reportedly identified "G.H." as the Black Dahlia's killer, as well as the likely suspect in the murder of Louise Springer, a 28-year-old who was abducted and strangled to death in 1949.

The letter was discovered in July by Martin's granddaughter, Sandi Nichols, tucked away in her late mother's belongings. The 62-year-old, who was unfamiliar with the murder cases described in the letter, searched the Internet for answers and found Hodel, according to the South Pasadenan.

Hodel had reportedly submitted the final draft of his upcoming book to his publisher when he received an email and then a phone call from a concerned Nichols. After speaking in depth about the discovery, Nichols sent Hodel the letter for further studying.

"I have lost lots of sleep over this letter," Nichols told the South Pasadenan from her Indianapolis home. "The letter created some serious questions for me. I suddenly had my hand on something very important. Who was this man 'G.H.' and who were those women he killed?"

The letter is included as an afterword in Hodel's new book, "Black Dahlia Avenger III," due out this week.

Nichols told the publication she was haunted by the details concerning Elizabeth Short, who would be dubbed the Black Dahlia by the press after her gruesome death.

Short's naked corpse was found in a vacant lot on Jan. 15, 1947. She was scrubbed, cut in half and drained of blood. She was viciously mutilated and a joker's smile was carved on her face.

"Elizabeth was 22 when she was killed," said Nichols. "She had four siblings, a mother who loved her dearly. To think that 'good' people knew who killed her and covered it up and went on to live their own lives is unconscionable to me. Elizabeth matters. Her family matters."

Hodel has no doubt his father is the mastermind behind Short's demise.

The Guardian previously reported that shortly after Dr. Hodel's death in 1999 at age 91, Hodel went through his belongings and discovered photographs he believed were of Short. This compelled him to spend decades looking for evidence that proves his father killed the Massachusetts native.

Hodel believed crime scene photos showed that Short was given a hemicorporectomy, a procedure that "slices the body beneath the lumbar spine, the only spot where the body can be severed in half without breaking bone." He argued the procedure was taught in the 1930s, the same time period when his father would have been in medical school.

According to The Guardian, Hodel combed through witness interviews and newspaper archives, filed a Freedom of Information Act to retrieve FBI files on the case and other information the bureau had collected on his father. He also tracked down those who were associated with the case.

While a handwriting expert determined there was "a strong likelihood" his father's handwriting matched the script on some of the notes the killer sent to the LAPD, the results were inconclusive.

The publication added Steve Lopez, a columnist for the Los Angeles Times, asked the Los Angeles County district attorney's office for more information on the case to fact-check his column, which focused on Hodel's 2003 book at the time about his findings. According to the documents, Dr. Hodel was indeed one of the main suspects in the Black Dahlia investigation. Lopez also read through seemingly forgotten police transcripts, which revealed Hodel's home had been reportedly bugged by the district attorney's office.

The Smithsonian Magazine reported the recordings allegedly revealed Hodel bragging, "Supposin' I did kill the Black Dahlia. They couldn't prove it now. They can't talk to my secretary anymore because she's dead." It's unknown whether Hodel knew he was being heard and decided to taunt police or if he was confessing to his potential involvement.

The magazine also revealed one of the photographs Hodel initially believed was of Short was later identified as a family friend. The publication also pointed out the media's attention on Hodel's findings also dwindled with time after he argued that Dr. Hodel could have also been responsible for the Zodiac murders, which occurred in California in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

People magazine also reported police didn't build their case and arrest Dr. Hodel at the time because he skipped town without his family in 1950 and ended up in the Philippines, where he lived for the next 40 years.

In 2013, Hodel claimed a search of his family's Hollywood home by a cadaver dog and a retired police sergeant turned up the scent of human decomposition. He believed it was the same place where Dr. Hodel allegedly killed Short.

Vanity Fair recently reported actor Chris Pine and "Woman Woman" director Patty Jenkins will be releasing a TNT miniseries titled "I Am the Night" in January 2019, which is inspired by the Black Dahlia case. The story will also feature a "sinister" Dr. Hodel, played by Jefferson Mays.

When Short showed up in Los Angeles during the 1940s, the small-town girl had big dreams of becoming a movie star. However, she would only receive fame in death.

Short's death became the subject of a 2006 film directed by Brian De Palma, starring Scarlett Johansson and Hilary Swank. It also inspired FX series "American Horror Story" in 2011, with Mena Suvari playing Short.

In late 2017, British lawyer Piu Eatwell told Fox News she may have solved the mystery of the infamous murder. In her book, "Black Dahlia, Red Rose," Eatwell attempted to shed light on Short's killing based on legal documents from the case, letters and grand jury testimony. Eatwell even tracked down some of the last living people with direct knowledge of the events at the time.

Based on her findings, Eatwell claimed it was an ex-boyfriend, who was a former mortician's assistant, who did it.

Eatwell went on to insist that Leslie Dillon, an aspiring writer, allegedly preserved newspaper clippings about violence against women. Short's friend Ann Toth and model Ardis Green reportedly identified Dillon as one of her boyfriends.

The Los Angeles Times reported in 1949 that Dillon was released by police due to lack of evidence. He would go on to live a relatively quiet life until his death in 1988 at age 67.

Short's murder remains unsolved.

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The New England Patriots will host the Green Bay Packers on Sunday Night. The game will feature two of the best quarterbacks in the game. Aaron Rodgers is a six-time Pro-Bowler, 2-time AP NFL MVP and Super Bowl XLV MVP.  Tom Brady is one of the greatest of all time. He is a 13-time Pro-Bowler, 3-time MVP, 5-time Super Bowl champ, and 4-time Super Bowl MVP.

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A dream quarterback scenario is headed to primetime Sunday night when Tom Brady's New England Patriots take on Aaron Rodgers' Green Bay Packers at Gillette Stadium.

It's just the second career meeting between the two future Hall of Fame quarterbacks.

"You'll see two of the best. Two of the best of all time," Packers coach Mike McCarthy said Wednesday. "You really appreciate not only what they do on the field from a quarterback position, but really their contributions to the game of football. And what they do as men outside of the game of football.

"But if you wanted to study how to play quarterback then you need to watch that game Sunday night. Because you're going to see all the little things. You're going to see fundamentals. You're going to see the at-the-line responsibility... You're going to see everything you probably want to see out of that position. ... From pure quarterback play I think this is definitely one you'll want to watch."

To put that statement into perspective, let's look at some career superlatives, courtesy of NFL Research:

Aaron Rodgers:
6x Pro Bowler
2x First-Team All-Pro selection
2x AP NFL MVP
Highest passer rating in NFL history (103.6)
Highest TD-INT ratio in NFL history (326-79)
Won Super Bowl XLV (named Super Bowl MVP)
Only QB in NFL history with a 100-plus passer rating in six straight seasons
Led NFL in passing TD in 2016 (40)
Led NFL in passer rating twice (2011-12)
1 of 4 QBs with multiple seasons of 40-plus pass TD (Marino, P. Manning & Brees)

Tom Brady
13x Pro Bowler
3x First-Team All-Pro selection
3x AP NFL MVP
Only QB in NFL history with 200-plus career NFL wins
Most Super Bowl wins (5) by QB in NFL history
Four-time Super Bowl MVP (most all-time)
8 Super Bowl appearances (2001, 2003-04, 2007, 2011, 2014, 2016-17)
Most pass yards in a single Super Bowl history (505 in Super Bowl LII)
Thrown a TD pass to 71 different players (most in NFL)
Oldest player to lead NFL in pass yards (40 years old in 2017)
3rd all-time in passing TD (504); 4th in passing yards (68,359)
2009 AP Comeback Player of the Year

" Rodgers and Brady are the only two QBs with six seasons of 30-plus pass TDs and fewer than 10 INTs in a single season in NFL history -- no other player has more than three such seasons

" Rodgers and Brady are 2 of 4 QBs with four seasons of 35-plus passing TDs. Others: Drew Brees and Peyton Manning

" Brady has the second-most passing TDs in a single season (50 in 2007). Rodgers has the sixth-most pass TD in a season (45 in 2011).

" Rodgers has the highest single-season passer rating (122.5 in 2011). Brady has the fourth-highest single-season passer rating (117.2 in 2007).

" Rodgers has the best TD-INT ratio in the NFL since 1932 (4.1). Brady has the second-best TD-INT ratio in the NFL since 1932 (3.0)

By any metric, stat, accolade, or eye-test, Brady and Rodgers are two of the greatest ever to toss a pigskin.

"I think this is clearly going to be right there or maybe the best," McCarthy said of Sunday's matchup. "Montana-John Elway is something that I was fortunate to be around '93-'94."

On the field Sunday night, they'll matchup for just the second time. The only other meeting came in Week 13, 2014 at Lambeau Field. Rodgers' Packers went home victorious that night, beating the Patriots 26-21. Both QBs were sublime that night: Rodgers: 368 yards passing, 2-0 TD-INT, 112.6 passer rating; Brady: 245 yards passing, 4-0 TD-INT, 102.7 passer rating. Brady's Patriots took the L that night but went on to win the Super Bowl.

"The irony of it is they don't play against each other. I think we all recognize that," McCarthy noted. "But the lineup of Aaron Rodgers- Tom Brady, it's definitely a contest I'm sure everyone is looking forward to."

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Two dead Saudi Arabian sisters were found duct taped together on the bays of the Hudson River. Authorities believe that the two girls may have originally been dumped in the river before washing ashore. There are no clear signs of trauma on either of their bodies and detectives are still searching for clues about their mysterious deaths.

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Girl called "mother hen" to brothers after all 3 killed in bus stop crash

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All the guns used in Saturday's massacre at a Pittsburgh synagogue had been purchased legally, a federal official said Wednesday.

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A suicide bomber targeting a bus carrying employees of Afghanistan's biggest prison killed at least seven people on Wednesday

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A suicide bomber targeting a bus carrying employees of Afghanistan's biggest prison killed at least seven people on Wednesday, officials said, in the latest militant attack in the war-torn country.

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Priest in Ohio, arrested after admitting to a 3 year long relationship with a now pregnant 17 year old

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A Catholic priest in Ohio was arrested after his diocese said he admitted to a three-year relationship with a now-pregnant 17-year-old girl.

Father Henry Christopher Foxhoven, 45, a priest from the Diocese in Steubenville, was charged with eight counts of sexual battery after allegedly engaging in sexual conduct with a minor between Aug. 17 and Oct. 25, according to the Athens County Sheriff's Office.

The prosecutor said Foxhoven's sexual conduct with the girl who is a member of Holy Cross in Glouster, one of his two parishes, happened on church property but not inside the church itself.
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The Steubenville diocese reported the allegations Saturday after Foxhoven admitted to the relationship, and he was immediately barred from church property and suspended from practicing all religious services.

After obtaining a search warrant Monday, investigators found evidence of criminal activity at Foxhoven's residence, including several used condoms and a used pregnancy test with a positive indication.

Foxhoven was charged Tuesday in court with a $1 million bond. He is scheduled to appear again for a preliminary hearing on Nov. 29.
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Foxhoven was ordained in 2004 and previously worked in St. Clairsville and Wintersville. There are no reported incidents from the priest in the past.

This news comes as the Steubenville diocese released the names of 16 priests and one seminarian who have been credibly accused or admitted to sexually abusing minors, most deceased and dating back decades.

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In a rare sighting, a couple from northern Ontario, in Canada, spotted two white moose crossing a highway.

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In a rare sighting, a couple from northern Ontario, in Canada, spotted two white moose crossing a highway.

Nicole Leblanc, who posted a now-viral video of the exciting encounter on Facebook, told Canadian news station CTV-News she and her husband saw the moose while driving to a camp near Foleyet.
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"People are amazed. It's not every day that you get to see it and I was able to tape it ... it's a beauty to see," the Timmins resident said.

Though their striking color may have caused some to think these creatures were albino, the news station reported they were not. Rather, these white moose - sometimes called "ghost" or "spirit" moose - are a snowy white due to the Armstrong White Gene Strain, a recessive gene which causes the color, according to Tourism Northern Ontario.

Non-albino white moose can sometimes be called piebald, meaning they have specks of brown on their white coat, National Geographic reported.

The 1997 Fish and Wildlife Conservation Act prohibits the hunting of these unique creatures if they are more than 50 percent white, according to the tourism site.
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Northern Ontario residents or tourists can typically spot white moose along highway 101 - the same highway where Leblanc captured the video - between Foleyet and Timmins, according to Tourism Northern Ontario.

As of Wednesday morning, Leblanc's video had more 3 million views and 80,000 shares.

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The Dallas Cowboys, Philadelphia Eagles and Washington Redskins entered into a midseason arms race at the NFL trade deadline, which makes their upcoming competition for an NFC East title all the more enthralling.

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The Dallas Cowboys, Philadelphia Eagles and Washington Redskins entered into a midseason arms race at the NFL trade deadline, which makes their upcoming competition for an NFC East title all the more enthralling.

The division was already becoming one of the NFL's most competitive races in recent weeks. Three of the four organizations-not including the 1-7 New York Giants-then made moves to improve their chances of making the postseason.

"Our foot is always on the gas," Eagles general manager Howie Roseman told reporters after trading a 2019 third-round pick for wide receiver Golden Tate on Tuesday.

Each team took a different approach to bolstering its roster for the stretch run.

The Cowboys blinked first by sending a 2019 first-round pick to the Oakland Raiders for wide receiver Amari Cooper.

"We wouldn't give th at first-round pick up if it weren't for the long term," Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said Friday during his weekly appearance on 105.3 The Fan (via Sporting News' Chelsea Howard). "And the other thing we can do is step in here and have immediate value for him for this year."

Jones became enamored with Cooper, who he believes can "definitely change the dynamics of the offense."

The septuagenarian isn't wrong. Cooper may not be an elite No. 1 receiver, but he'll improve an underwhelming Cowboys receiving corps.

"He's certainly as advertised in terms of just his conscientiousness, how he approaches it, his work ethic," Jones said. "And, of course, he has unique skills."

Cole Beasley leads the Cowboys with 33 receptions for 350 yards. He's a slippery slot receiver best suited to work underneath routes as Dak Prescott's security blanket. Tight end Geoff Swaim is Dallas' second-leading receiver with 205 yards. Meanwhile, Allen Hurns, Deonte Thompson and rookie Michael Gallup haven't provided nearly enough working outside the numbers this season.

Cooper produced a pair of 1,000-yard campaigns and two Pro Bowl berths in his first two seasons before he began struggling with drops and inconsistency over the past year-and-a-half, as CBS Sports noted:

CBS Sports HQ @CBSSportsHQ
Highest drop % among 50 most-targeted WRs over the past 4 seasons: Amari Cooper - 8.4% Ted Ginn - 7.8% Davante Adams - 7.5% Dez Bryant - 7.4% Michael Crabtree - 7.4% https://t.co/wnd8yYfzUV

Despite those issues, Cooper is now the most talented receiver on the Cowboys roster. The 24-year-old is only six months older than Calvin Ridley, whom the Atlanta Falcons selected with a first-round pick in April. He'll improve Dallas' 29th-ranked pass offense by making defenses account for him at all times.

Is it enough for the Cowboys to win the division? Well, the Eagles added a far more productive target in Tate for only a third-round pick, per ESPN's Adam Schefter.

The 30-year-old is the NFL's best slot receiver. He has at least 90 catches in each of the last four seasons and had at least 1,000 yards in three of those campaigns.

"We think we have a really good football team and we are adding a really good player," Roseman said, per Dave Spadaro of the Eagles official site. "He fits this culture. ... What he does with the ball in his hands is special."

Special is an understatement. Tate is the league's most elusive receiver after the catch, according to NFL Next Gen Stats:

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The @Eagles have acquired Golden Tate from the Lions for a 2019 3rd round pick. @ShowtimeTate has been among the best receivers creating yards after the catch, leading all WRs in total YAC (1528) and YAC Above Expectation (+296) since 2016. #FlyEaglesFly https://t.co/CEak01CUhY

Tate will immediately become a multidimensional weapon in Doug Pederson's offense, much like Nelson Agholor already is. Pederson can utilize both Tate and Agholor as a slot receiver, outside target, deep threat, intermediate option or gadget player out the backfield.

Fran Duffy of the Eagles official site shared a few examples of how the Lions manufactured touches for Tate:

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Shot 8 - Then you've got him as a ball carrier. Tate carries the ball on Jets, Reverses and End Arounds, and even in the backfield as a RB. Him on the field with Alshon, Ertz, Agholor, Goedert, etc will be fun to watch. #FlyEaglesFly https://t.co/qSCDtPsYaV

Dallas and Philadelphia both addressed areas of need for their offenses. Washington, meanwhile, bolstered its already strong defense by sending a fourth-round pick to the Green Bay Packers for safety Ha Ha Clinton-Dix, according to NFL Network's Ian Rapoport.

Clinton-Dix is a perfect complementary piece in Washington's defensive backfield. D.J. Swearinger is better working near the line of scrimmage as a downhill safety, while Clinton-Dix is a traditional over-the-top free safety. According to ESPN.com's Mike Clay, the two defensive backs currently own Pro Football Focus' second- and third-best grades among safeties.

Washington also has plenty of depth at the position to present different big nickel looks with Montae Nicholson or Deshazor Everett.
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Clinton-Dix will be a free agent after this season, which is likely why the Packers were willing to move him. Washington will either get a jump on re-signing the 2014 first-round pick, or it's likely to receive a compensatory pick in the 2020 draft.

Either way, the NFL's fourth-ranked defense improved along its back line. That became a necessity after Washington's primary competition for a division crown both added weapons in the passing game.

Jay Gruden's squad already makes teams one-dimensional by allowing only 80.1 rushing yards per game. Now, the group is even more prepared to defend the pass.

Washington has a 1.5-game lead over Philadelphia and a two-game lead over Dallas. The Cowboys and Redskins each have four divisional games remaining, while the Eagles have five.

The moves these teams made ahead of Tuesday's trade deadline could help decide which one emerges as division champion.
Brent Sobleski covers the NFL for Bleacher Report. Follow him on Twitter:@brentsobleski.

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Incredible photo of deer hiding in plain sight goes viral: Can you spot it? (Hint: Look toward the top of the hill)

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That's some impressive camouflage.

Mick Murphy was out with his daughter, Eva, enjoying the Scottish hillside when the eagle-eyed 11-year-old spotted something out in the distance.
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"I didn't notice the stag, it was my little girl. I only noticed it when it moved," Mick Murphy, 45, said to the Daily Mail, noting that it was one of a "couple" red stags roaming the site.

The deer's coat matched the autumn landscape perfectly, but somehow Eva managed to spot it.

Murphy, from Coatbridge, took the impressive snapshot and posted it to social media with the caption, "Spot the stag."

The post soon went viral, frustrating viewers from across the globe.
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"That was hard to find ... whole family trying to be first to spot him," one person commented.

"Bah! Man, that's frustrating! My eyes won't see it! Even with the magnifying glass," another wrote.

"As a hunter I'd starve, can't see him anywhere," someone joked.

One commenter thought Murphy was lying about there being a deer at all.

"Haha I thought for sure there was no stag and that you were at it," they wrote.
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Murphy was amazed by how quickly the picture took off, but is glad people enjoyed the tricky photo.

"I was surprised by how many people liked it, I don't post much on social media, I was surprised," he said to the Daily Mail.

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World series champion Xander Bogaerts sees his dad after 23 years

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The night before Game 3 of the 2018 World Series, Xander Bogaerts' mind raced. He was restless, but not because of any concerns about his team and its fate. He never doubted the Red Sox would win the World Series. In that moment, the game was the least of his worries.

He entered the postseason as the only active player on the Boston roster with experience in the Fall Classic. The nerves, the anxiety, the excitement, he knew how to deal with all that after feeling it back in 2013, the first time around when he started at third base as the Red Sox beat the Cardinals for their eighth title.

Instead, his anxious thoughts centered around the reunion later that night in the ballroom of the Langham Hotel in Los Angeles. They made him feel like a rookie all over again.

Twenty-three years. That's how much time had passed. Twenty-three long years since Bogaerts last saw his dad, Jan Maarten Bogaerts, a man whose first names are the middle names of his 26-year-old twin sons, Xander Jan and Jair Maarten. Growing up, those middle names were only heard when Mom, Sandra Brown, grew angry with the boys in Aruba.

Maarten was in Los Angeles only because Xander reached out to him last week while he was in Hong Kong, where he works in imports and exports. Maarten and his wife, Lourdes, soon found themselves on a plane en route to LAX, flying 7,000 miles over the Pacific Ocean to watch his son play in his second World Series. To watch his son play baseball in person for the second time in his life.

As Xander inched closer to the ballroom, his mind jumped from thought to thought. I mean, what are you supposed to say in this situation? What do you say to your dad after not seeing him for 23 years? What do you say to your father who left behind Aruba and his family when you were three years old? What do you do when you sit down for a meal with your dad for the first time since you were old enough to remember?

"I didn't know how it would all feel," Xander tells Bleacher Report. "Whether it would be awkward or not."
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As he sat down, he took a moment. He reminded himself of the biggest lesson he had learned since being a fresh-faced rookie who raised a World Series trophy, what he tells himself every time he steps up to the plate.

Stay in the present. Stay in the present. Stay in the present.

Sandra Brown did her best to make sure her three kids never missed out on anything, as if they never missed out by not having Dad around.

Supermom, the kids called her, and they watched her shuffle from her duties as a social worker to the never-ending job of being a single mom. The family grew up in a four-bedroom home 12 miles southeast of Oranjestad, the capital of Aruba. Mom's boisterous, enthusiastic, optimistic personality did enough to fill all the rooms by herself.

"She didn't make it feel like there was something missing," Chandra, Xander's sister, says.

The hardest part was explaining where their dad was. As little kids, Xander and Jair struggled to put words together to explain to their friends why their dad didn't live with them, let alone lived halfway across the world. Year by year, the missed moments piled up. The brothers preferred not to think about the situation.

Whenever the topic came up, Sandra always made sure to never speak negatively about Maarten. "Whatever happened between him and me, that was between him and me," Sandra says.

The kids and Maarten spoke sporadically. Sandra always made sure on Father's Day, on Christmas, on birthdays that Xander, Jair and Chandra spoke to their dad, even if they didn't want to.

"Until they were 18, I made sure they were diligent," Sandra says. "But once they were 18, they were grown, so they can take care of themselves. You are on your own."

In 2004, with Xander 12 years old, Chandra left Aruba to attend college in Hong Kong, where she felt a pull to reconnect and get to know her dad. She reached out to Maarten's wife, who helped her make that connection. "I've grown to know my dad better through his wife," Chandra says. "[Xander and Jair] didn't have that."

After she would meet with Maarten, she would text updates to her brothers. "We saw Papa this weekend," Chandra would text the boys. This is how he is now, this is how he used to be, she texted them. He's different from when we were little, she assured.

Xander and Jair showed varying levels of interest. They received encouragement to reach out to their father from their aunt, Nydia. The boys, seven years younger than their older sister, still teenagers, weren't ready yet. Supermom didn't worry.

"That time always comes in everyone's life," Sandra says.

Maarten always kept up on his sons' baseball careers. He knew when Xander and Jair both signed with the Red Sox. He knew when Xander made the jump to the Red Sox Dominican Academy to Greenville and then was promoted to Salem, Portland and Pawtucket. He followed Jair, who went from the Dominican Academy to being traded to the Chicago Cubs to a pursuit of a career as a sports agent. He just wanted them both to have success.
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"You follow that in the background," Maarten says. "You do a lot via the internet and the newspapers and things like that." He says he just wanted to see how Xander was progressing, doing what he wanted, playing the game he loves. "That was the most important."

He left Aruba before Xander became a baseball player, before Xander became the island's star shortstop who nearly didn't go to his Red Sox tryout because he had chicken pox. He left before Xander and Jair signed their professional contracts at Fenway Park in 2009.

He had wanted to reach out for years, to reconnect, but the timing wasn't right. "He'd been trying for a while already, but it had to be up to them," Chandra says. "You can't impose something like that on your children, so he left it up to them. He left the door open."

Maarten came to understand why his sons weren't ready. "It was a lot of family stuff," he says now.

When the Red Sox reached the 2013 World Series, Maarten felt a pull to connect with his son, to congratulate him, to see him play in person and spend time with him after so many years had passed. Already overwhelmed with being a rookie and a starting third baseman in the World Series, Xander couldn't handle anything more. He told Maarten that he wasn't ready to see him. That the time hadn't yet come.

So Maarten, determined to watch his son play baseball in person for the first time, flew 18 hours to St. Louis to watch Xander play third base in Busch Stadium, camping out with his wife high in the right field corner. He left the next day, heading back to Hong Kong.

After the Red Sox raised the trophy back in Boston, the family received a picture of Maarten and Lourdes at the game. "I was glad that he respected our decision," Jair says. "We were 21, and that would've been even more tough of a World Series."

Xander and Jair continued to receive encouragement from their aunt to reach out to Maarten. While on a trip across Europe in 2016, Jair decided it was time to see his dad. "I decided I wanted to make it happen," Jair says. "I just wanted to get it over with." They met. They caught up and started to talk.

The family started to wonder about Xander too. Jair talking to Dad again cracked open the door. Xander began to wonder in the family WhatsApp group chat whether it was time for him to do so as well. He peppered Chandra with questions, as Jair had done a year before. After a long conversation with his aunt, Xander added Maarten on WhatsApp. "F--k it. Let's get it done," Xander told Jair. So they did.

A day after the Red Sox beat the Astros to advance to the World Series, Xander asked his father if he wanted to join the family for the Los Angeles leg of the series. "We have to be there," Maarten told Xander. A flurry of logistics later, Maarten was in Los Angeles, ready to watch all three games at Dodger Stadium.

Xander, Jair and Maarten talked at dinner and then at breakfast the next day. Chandra took photos. "I have so many photos of them together, smiling and laughing," she says. "That wasn't something we had growing up." Over the course of the week, they filled up the empty family photo albums.

"It's one of the best decisions I've ever made," Xander says. "I've grown up as a man."

When the final out came, when Chris Sale struck out Manny Machado on a slider that brought the Dodgers' slugger to one knee, when the Red Sox became world champions for the ninth time in franchise history, Jair turned to his father. As they watched Xander join the celebration mob on the mound, they hugged and celebrated together for the first time. "I made sure I was there next to him," Jair says.

As the crowd settled down, Jair met his brother on the field. He gave him a dap and a hug. Maarten, wearing a Bogaerts jersey and a blue-and-green backpack, grabbed and hugged Xander as well, whispering something in his ear and rubbing his back. Xander smiled.

The family walked toward the infield dirt. Maarten continued to pat his son on the back.

"It's all worth it," Maarten said. "It's all worth it."

The family took a photo together, among the first in 23 years. Chandra's son ran away as soon as he was let go. Xander chased him into the outfield.

When Chandra looked at her brother now, she saw the transformation. Xander wasn't the same 16-year-old kid who signed out of Aruba. Even the 21-year-old who won a World Series during his rookie year seemed like a distant memory. "He's matured the same way he's matured playing baseball," she says. "It helped him find himself as a man, and that was what he needed to actually get face to face with Daddy and figure things out."

Xander is briefly pulled away to do a TV interview in the outfield. When he is finished, he takes a moment to think about his dad, that Maarten was with him to celebrate his second world championship.

"I've forgiven him for everything, all the time he wasn't here," Xander said. "I'm trying to enjoy the good times we're going to have going forward, and hopefully we can see him more often.

"I'm just glad we won it in Dodger Stadium while he was here."

Everyone acknowledged this was just the beginning of a road mended. Conversations still need to take place, and 23 years don't disappear overnight. But as the Jumbotron flashed "WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS" along with the Red Sox logo, Maarten glanced at Xander.

Life isn't a fairy tale with an easy beginning, middle and end. But at least for one ephemeral moment, Maarten couldn't have imagined things being any better.

"Perfect," Maarten said. He paused and thought. "Yeah, perfect."

The time had finally come. It was now.

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