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Swampscott Native Delivers Precious Cargo to Newtown

Swampscott High graduate and, now, a teacher, John Romano will travel from Philadelphia to Newtown, CT on Sunday.

  John Romano holds precious cargo within. It circulates between memory and the inner core where empathy stirs. He'll deliver it Sunday to Newtown, Connecticut when he hugs a Newtown teacher and a Sandy Hook Elementary School bus operator who had been the driver for children killed by gunman Adam Lanza Dec. 14. John Romano is no hugger, he said. But he will venture outside his comfort zone to fulfill a wish from a student. John, a Swampscott High Class of '96 graduate, teaches science in inner city Philadelphia at Girard College, a K-12 boarding school. It is endowed by old money for students with no money, children who come from a single- or no-parent, low-income background.   The kids have an especially hard time around the holidays when…

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